Thermocapillary effects in a suspension of droplets

B.U. Felderhof

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1997, vol. 235, issue 1, 48-55

Abstract: A liquid droplet immersed in a fluid subjected to a temperature gradient tends to move in the direction of higher temperature due to the temperature dependence of surface tension. In a suspension of many droplets the motion is determined by an interplay of hydrodynamic and thermal interactions. If the droplets are sufficiently small, then Brownian motion is important. A generalized Smoluchowski equation, which describes the change of the probability distribution of configurations under the influence of hydrodynamic and thermal interactions, is proposed.

Keywords: Emulsion; Brownian motion; Thermocapillarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00327-5

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