Pattern formation in solutal convection: vermiculated rolls and isolated cells

Julyan H.E Cartwright, Oreste Piro and Ana I Villacampa

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 314, issue 1, 291-298

Abstract: Observations of the peculiar behaviour of a drink of liqueur topped with cream led us to perform experiments showing that the instability is a convection phenomenon that arises through destabilizing surface-tension forces. The convection is solutal: driven by gradients of concentration of a solute, rather than by heat gradients as in the more commonly studied thermal convection. The convective patterns, vermiculated rolls and isolated cells, are quite unlike the usual planforms. They are associated with an elastic surface film, and the Marangoni number is high, characteristic of solutal convection. We have conducted further experiments that reproduce these patterns in simpler working fluids.

Keywords: Isolated cells; Pattern formation; Solutal convection; Tia Maria instability; Vermiculated rolls (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01080-4

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