Wave celerity on a shear-thinning fluid film flowing down an incline

Wave celerity on a shear-thinning fluid film flowing down an incline

Instabilities of Thin Viscous Liquid Film Flowing down a Uniformly Heated Inclined Plane

Instabilities of a thin viscous film flowing down a uniformly heated plane are investigated in this study. The heating generates a surface tension gradient that induces thermocapillary stresses on the free surface. Thus, the film is not only influenced by gravity and mean surface tension but also the thermocapillary force is acting on the free surface. Moreover, the heat transfer at the free su...

Linear stability analysis of nematic liquid crystals flowing down an incline plane

Degassing cascades in a shear-thinning viscoelastic fluid.

We report the experimental study of the degassing dynamics through a thin layer of shear-thinning viscoelastic fluid when a constant air flow is imposed at its bottom. The fluid is an aqueous solution of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and sodium salicylate (NaSal). Over a large range of parameters, the air is periodically released through a series of successive bubbles, hereafter named c...

Influences of Interfacial Shear in Turbulent Film Boiling on a Horizontal Tube with External Flowing Liquid

The paper presents a theoretical study about turbulent film boiling on a horizontal tube with external flowing liquid. The high velocity flowing liquid is determined by potential flow theory. By using Colburn analogy, the present paper successfully addresses a new model to predict the vaporliquid interfacial shear, applies the interfacial shear into the forced balance equation and then combines...