Thermocapillary Migration and Interaction of Two Nondeformable Droplets

YIN Zhao-hua; CHANG Lei; HU Wen-rui; GAO Peng

doi:10.3879/j.issn.1000-0887.2011.07.001

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YIN Zhao-hua, CHANG Lei, HU Wen-rui, GAO Peng. Thermocapillary Migration and Interaction of Two Nondeformable Droplets[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2011, 32(7): 761-773. doi: 10.3879/j.issn.1000-0887.2011.07.001

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Thermocapillary Migration and Interaction of Two Nondeformable Droplets

doi: 10.3879/j.issn.1000-0887.2011.07.001

National Microgravity Laboratory, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China

Received Date: 2011-04-14
Rev Recd Date: 2011-05-18
Publish Date: 2011-07-15

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A numerical study on interactions of two spherical drops in therm ocapillary migration in microgravity was presented. Finite-difference methods were adopted and the interfaces of drops were captured by the fronttracking technique. It is found that the arrangement of drops directly in fluences their migrations and interaction, and that the motion of one drop is mainly determined by the disturbed temperature field because of the existence of another drop.
- in teractions of two drops,
- therm ocapillary motion,
- fronttracking method

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