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The concentration convection in an isothermal fluid near an air bubble clamped between the vertical walls of a horizontal channel with a rectangular cross-section is studied experimentally and numerically. The channel is filled with an aqueous solution of a surfactant with a nonuniform concentration. As a result of the competition between the gravitational convection in the cavity volume and the Marangoni convection near the bubble surface, an oscillation flow regime is established. This regime is observed experimentally over several hours. In the numerical experiment, the oscillations are obtained in the presence of an initial horizontal surfactant concentration gradient. Against the background of gravitational convection, short bursts of Marangoni convection with ten times greater intensity are observed. The convective flow patterns and the oscillation periods obtained experimentally and numerically are in fairly good agreement.
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Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, 2006, pp. 30–38.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2006 by Birikh, Zuev, Kostarev, and Rudakov.
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Birikh, R.V., Zuev, A.L., Kostarev, K.G. et al. Convective self-oscillations near an air-bubble surface in a horizontal rectangular channel. Fluid Dyn 41, 514–520 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10697-006-0069-0
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