Influence of buoyancy forces on Marangoni flow instabilities in liquid bridges

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 721-749

  Lappa, M ^a   Savino, R ^a   Monti, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; GEOMETRY; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER; TEMPERATURE;

CRITICAL AZIMUTRAL WAVE NUMBER; LIQUID BRIDGES; MARANGONI FLOW; MICROSCALE APPARATUS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; STANDING WAVE REGIME; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW FIELD; THERMOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION SYSTEM; TRAVELLING WAVE REGIME;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 0034543710     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530010350444     Document Type: Article

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