Instability of Marangoni toroidal convection in a microchannel and its relevance with the flowing direction

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 327-338

  Pan, Zhenhai ^a   Wang, Fen ^a   Wang, Hao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Instability; Marangoni flow; Meniscus; Symmetry; Vortex

Indexed keywords

3D NUMERICAL MODEL; AMPLIFICATION MECHANISM; BULK LIQUID; CYLINDRICAL CHANNEL; HEAT TRANSFER ANALYSIS; MARANGONI; MARANGONI FLOWS; MARANGONI NUMBERS; MENISCUS; MICRO-FLUID; NANO-FLUID; NUMERICAL MODELS; PURE LIQUIDS; SIDE VIEW; SINGLE VORTICES; TOROIDAL FLOW; TRACING PARTICLE; VORTEX; WORKING FLUID;

BUOYANCY; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; LIQUIDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 84855935764     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-011-0802-9     Document Type: Article

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