Stability of slowly evaporating thin liquid films of binary mixtures
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Author(s)
Nazareth, RK
Karapetsas, G
Sefiane, K
Matar, OK
Valluri, P
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We consider the evaporation of a thin liquid layer which consists of a binary mixture of volatile liquids. The mixture is on top of a heated substrate and in contact with the gas phase that consists of the same vapor as the binary mixture. The effects of thermocapillarity, solutocapillarity, and the van der Waals interactions are considered. We derive the long-wave evolution equations for the free interface and the volume fraction that govern the two-dimensional stability of the layer subject to the above coupled mechanisms and perform a linear stability analysis. Our results demonstrate two modes of instabilities, a monotonic instability mode and an oscillatory instability mode. We supplement our results from stability analysis with transient simulations to examine the dynamics in the nonlinear regime and analyze how these instabilities evolve with time. More precisely we discuss how the effect of relative volatility along with the competition between thermal and solutal Marangoni effect define the mode of instability that develops during the evaporation of the liquid layer due to preferential evaporation of one of the components.
Date Issued
2020-10-27
Date Acceptance
2020-09-30
Citation
Physical Review Fluids, 2020, 5 (10), pp.104007 – 1-104007 – 32
ISSN
2469-990X
Publisher
American Physical Society
Start Page
104007 – 1
End Page
104007 – 32
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Fluids
Volume
5
Issue
10
Copyright Statement
©2020 American Physical Society
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Petronas Research Sdn. Bhd.
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.104007
Grant Number
EP/K003976/1
N/A
EP/T000414/1
Subjects
0102 Applied Mathematics
0203 Classical Physics
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
104007
Date Publish Online
2020-10-27