Marangoni instability of a liquid layer with insoluble surfactant under heat flux modulation

• Published in: The European physical journal. ST, Special topics Vol. 219; no. 1; pp. 81 - 88
• Main Authors: Mikishev, Alexander B., Nepomnyashchy, Alexander A.
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01-03-2013; EDP Sciences
• Subjects: Atomic; Classical and Continuum Physics; Condensed Matter Physics; Cross-disciplinary physics: materials science; rheology; Deformation; material flow; Exact sciences and technology; Materials Science; Measurement Science and Instrumentation; Molecular; Optical and Plasma Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Regular Article; Rheology; Marangoni Convection; Biot Number; Neutral Curve; European Physical Journal Special Topic; Marangoni Number; Parametric excitation; Frequency modulation; Heat flow; Instability; Free surface; Liquid films; Surfactants; Marangoni effect; Convection
• ISSN: 1951-6355; 1951-6401
• DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2013-01783-5

We investigate the parametric excitation of Marangoni convection by a periodic flux modulation in a liquid layer with insoluble surfactant absorbed on the nondeformable free surface. The stability analysis of the convective system is performed for arbitrary wave numbers of the disturbances. An interesting feature of the onset of convection is the existence of bifurcating neutral curves with double minima, one of which corresponds to a quasi-periodic solution, and the other one corresponds to a subharmonic solution. The evolution of the subharmonic instability region depending on the amplitude of the external heat flux modulation and the frequency of the modulation is studied. The quasi-periodic neutral curve is close to the oscillatory neutral curve of the nonmodulated problem.