Abstract
The axisymmetric steady two-phase flow of a differentially heated thermocapillary liquid bridge in air and its linear stability is investigated numerically, taking into account dynamic interfacial deformations in the basic flow. Since most experiments require a high temperature difference to drive the flow into the three-dimensional regime, the temperature dependence of the material properties must be taken into account. Three different models are investigated for a high-Prandtl-number thermocapillary liquid bridge with nominal Prandtl number
${\textit {Pr}}=28.8$
: the Oberbeck–Boussinesq (OB) approximation, a linear temperature dependence of all material properties and a full nonlinear temperature dependence of all material properties. For all models, critical Reynolds numbers are computed as functions of the volume of the liquid bridge, its aspect ratio, its dimensional size and as a function of the strength of a forced axial flow in the ambient air. Under most circumstances the OB approximation overpredicts and the linear model underpredicts the critical Reynolds number, compared with the model based on the full temperature dependence of the material properties. Among the main influence factors are the proper selection of the reference temperature and, at larger temperature differences, the temperature dependence of the viscosity of the liquid.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,Applied Mathematics
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