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A method dedicated to the measurement of low surface tension coefficients in binary fluids is proposed. The method which is not intrusive and does not interfere with the volume/weight proportion of liquid composing the binary mixture utilizes excitation of progressive capillary waves by pulsed radiation pressure force of focused ultrasound beam. A known dispersion relationship for gravity-capillary waves is used to evaluate the surface tension coefficient. The experiments are carried out in microgravity conditions in order to make the capillary term of the relationship strongly dominant and thus to reduce artifacts in acquired data.
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This research was carried out within the scope of the International Associated Laboratory on Critical & Supercritical phenomena in Functional Electronics, Acoustics & Fluidics - LIA LICS. The work was supported in part by the French National Space Agency (CNES), the Program of Invited professors of Centrale Lille and by the Presidium of RAS (Program I.7 “Modern problems of photonics, the probing of inhomogeneous media and materials”). Parabolic flight campaigns were provided by CNES and the European Space Agency (ESA). The authors are thankful to Prof. Olivier Bou Matar (Centrale Lille) who kindly provided his source code developed for evaluation of sound velocity dispersion and to Prof. Yuri Pylnov (MIREA) for his advises on data statistics.
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Krutyansky, L., Brysev, A., Zoueshtiagh, F. et al. Measurements of Interfacial Tension Coefficient Using Excitation of Progressive Capillary Waves by Radiation Pressure of Ultrasound in Microgravity. Microgravity Sci. Technol. 31, 723–732 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-019-9700-7
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