Thermocapillary effect of a liquid plug in transient temperature fields

• Main Authors: Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Huang, Xiaoyang
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93875; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7822
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper we present the theoretical and experimental results of thermocapillary effects of liquid plugs in a long capillary, which is exposed to a transient temperature gradient. A one-dimensional analytical model is formulated for the dynamic behavior of a liquid droplet, which is driven by th...