Thin films in the presence of chemical reactions

Antonio Pereira, Serafim Kalliadasis, Philip Trevelyan, Uwe Thiele

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Abstract

We investigate the interaction between thin films and chemical reactions by using two prototype systems: a thin liquid film falling down a planar inclined substrate in the presence of an exothermic chemical reaction and a horizontal thin liquid film with a reactive mixture of insoluble surfactants on its surface. In the first case the chemical reaction has a stabilizing influence on the dynamics of the film and dampens the free-surface solitary pulses. In the second case the chemical reaction can destabilize the film and lead to the formation of free-surface solitary pulses.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)303-316
Number of pages13
JournalFluid Dynamics and Materials Processing
Volume3
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 31 Dec 2007

Bibliographical note

Copyright © 2007. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords

  • Thin films
  • chemical reactions
  • thermal/solutal marangoni effect

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