Interfacial phenomena and convection (Q2735630)

This book presents a detailed up-to-date exposition of interfacial phenomena (adsorption, desorption, evaporation, boiling, wetting, spreading, drop and bubble formation and migration, rippling, etc.), which are essential for many natural and artificial technological processes. In particular, interfacial convection appears in many practical applications, such as metallurgy, electrochemistry, welding, painting, draying, etc. It should also be noted that ``interfacial convection is the basic mechanism of fluid motion even in large-scale processes, and has important applications in the microgravity or variable effective-gravity environment of space laboratories'' (from the preface). On the other hand, the book fills the gap between interfacial phenomena and traditional buoyancy-driven, natural convection and other flows driven by pressure gradients and body forces. Additionally, a common use of Soviet and Western works provides a uniform approach to the problem of description of working fluids for currently employed power plants. The book also presents a good synthesis of mathematical and numerical modelling with experimental results, leading to the understanding of conditions for interfacial instability and interfacial convection. A large number of references (695) included into the book demonstrates that the research in this important area remains to be topical. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEContents: 1. Introduction; 2. Interfacial flows; 3. Thermocapillary and solutocapillary migration of drops (and bubbles) and their spreading due to Marangoni effect; 4. Stationary interfacial patterns in liquid layers; 5. Interfacial oscillations and waves; 6. Instabilities of parallel flows and film flows; 6. Outlook; Bibliography; Index.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThis book will be useful to graduate students, applied mathematicians, physicists, chemical engineers, and anyone interested in interfacial phenomena.