Based on an extended model of Marangoni convection during absorption accompanied by chemical reaction certain characteristics of the process are studied. Thus, the probability of oscillatory modes occurring in the system is analysed, the dimensions of the convective cells are evaluated and the gas-liquid contact time necessary for the instability to appear is determined. The quantitative conclu...

The parametric instability in nematic liquid crystal layers has been studied using linear stability theory. Using material parameters of typical nematics, the neutral stability curve and dispersion relation of a system that presents critical subharmonic waves is obtained. The critical acceleration and wave number of the unstable stationary waves are discontinuous at the nematic-isotropic transi...

Temporal and spatio-temporal instabilities of binary liquid films flowing down an inclined uniformly heated plate with Soret effect are investigated by using the Chebyshev collocation method to solve the full system of linear stability equations. Seven dimensionless parameters, i.e. the Kapitza, Galileo, Prandtl, Lewis, Soret, Marangoni, and Biot numbers (Ka, G, Pr, L, χ , M , B), as well as th...

Marangoni instabilities can emerge when a liquid interface is subjected to concentration or temperature gradient. It generally believed that for these bulk effects like buoyancy are negligible compared interfacial forces, especially on small scales. Consequently, the effect of stable stratification instability has hitherto been ignored. Here, however, we show they matter. We report, an immiscib...

The aims of this study are the following two: (1) To show that in Langmuir monolayers (LM) at low supersaturation, domains grow forming fractal structures without an apparent orientational order trough tip splitting dynamics, where doublons are the building blocks producing domains with a seaweed shape. When supersaturation is larger, there is a morphology transition from tip splitting to side ...

Laser confocal microscopy is used to non-invasively investigate the steady and unsteady evolution of viscous microdroplets on solid substrates. Three characteristic dynamical regimes of spreading drops (viscous-capillary, viscous-inertia-capillary, and inertia-capillary) are studied using this non-invasive optical technique. It is shown that the dynamics of each regime depend on the Ohnesorge n...

A one-sided model of the thermal Marangoni instability owing to evaporation into an inert gas is developed. Two configurations are studied in parallel: a horizontal liquid layer and a spherical droplet. With the dynamic gas properties being admittedly negligible, one-sided approaches typically hinge upon quantifying heat and mass transfer through the gas phase by means of transfer coefficients ...