Publication Date:
2011-08-19
Description:
Marangoni flow was induced in a thin disk of molten tin with an atomically clean surface by heating it from below in an ultra high vacuum apparatus. The radial distribution of temperature was measured and no temperature oscillations were observed. Strong mechanical disturbances introduced at a Marangoni number of about 4300 died out quickly with time indicating that the system was stable. Mathematical models indicate that strong flows in a two cell structure exist under the conditions studied, and that the velocity profile in the cell near the surface is of the boundary layer type which varies rapidly with depth.
Keywords:
SOLID-STATE PHYSICS
Type:
Advances in Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177); 4; 5, 19; 15-22
Format:
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