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The effects of geometry and heating rate on thermocapillary convection in the liquid bridge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2019

Qi Kang Open the ORCID record for Qi Kang [Opens in a new window] ,
Di Wu Open the ORCID record for Di Wu [Opens in a new window] ,
Li Duan Open the ORCID record for Li Duan [Opens in a new window] ,
Liang Hu Open the ORCID record for Liang Hu [Opens in a new window] ,
Jia Wang Open the ORCID record for Jia Wang [Opens in a new window] ,
Pu Zhang Open the ORCID record for Pu Zhang [Opens in a new window]  and
Wenrui Hu
Qi Kang*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Microgravity, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China School of Engineering Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
Di Wu
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Microgravity, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China
Li Duan*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Microgravity, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China School of Engineering Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
Liang Hu
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Microgravity, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China
Jia Wang
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Microgravity, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China
Pu Zhang
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Microgravity, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China
Wenrui Hu
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Microgravity, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China School of Engineering Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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†Email addresses for correspondence: kq@imech.ac.cn, duanli@imech.ac.cn
†Email addresses for correspondence: kq@imech.ac.cn, duanli@imech.ac.cn
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Abstract

The experimental study on thermocapillary convection in liquid bridges of large Prandtl number has been carried out on Tiangong-2 in space. The purpose of these experiments is to study the oscillation instability of thermocapillary convection, and to discover and recognize the mechanism of destabilization of thermocapillary convection in the microgravity environment in space. In this paper, the geometry of a half-floating-zone liquid bridge is featured by the aspect ratio Ar and volume ratio Vr, and its influence on critical conditions of oscillatory thermocapillary convection is studied. More than 700 sets of space experiments have been finished. The critical conditions and oscillation characteristics of thermocapillary convection instability in the Ar–Vr parameter space have been fully obtained under microgravity conditions for the first time. It is found that the Ar–Vr parameter space can be divided into two regions of different critical conditions and oscillation characteristics: the region of low frequency oscillation, and the region of high frequency oscillation. More importantly, we obtain the complete configuration of these two stability neutral curves, and find that the low frequency mode is a ‘’ type curve. Based on this, we discuss the influence of heating rate on the oscillation mode. It is found that the heating rate affects the selection of critical mode, which results in a jump change of critical temperature difference. The findings of this study are helpful to better understand the critical modes and transition processes of thermocapillary convection in liquid bridges with different configurations.

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Convection: Marangoni convection Drops and Bubbles: Thermocapillarity Interfacial Flows (free surface): Liquid bridges
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 881 , 25 December 2019 , pp. 951 - 982
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