Dynamics of Multiphase Flows Across Interfaces

Roger Prud’homme (auth.), Annie Steinchen (eds.)3540608486, 9783540608486

Written for researchers and advanced students the book exhibits a combination of various methods and tools required to describe the complexity of the chemical and physical behaviour of fluid surfaces. The common denominator for all the contributions presented here is the simultaneous use of concepts from surface chemistry and physics and from hydrodynamics where external force fields can be introduced. Theoretical and experimental work is equally represented. Most of the basic problems in the area of nonequilibrium multiphase systems have not yet received extensive treatment. This volume should be a reference for physicists, physico-chemists, and chemical engineers and will serve as a jumping-off point for new directions and new points of view

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Table of contents :
Balance equations for fluid curvilinear media….Pages 1-7
The second gradient theory applied to interfaces: Models of continuum mechanics for fluid interfaces….Pages 8-13
Asymptotic modelling of fluid-fluid interfaces….Pages 14-27
Surface excess momentum balances by integration across the surface of the volume balances….Pages 28-36
Extended irreversible thermodynamics: Towards a non-local formulation….Pages 37-40
Transient surface properties of liquid bridge and pendant drop menisci in gravity and low gravity….Pages 41-55
Bénard-Marangoni instability in a rotating liquid layer with a deformable free surface….Pages 56-68
Balance equations and the problem of constitutive relations in varied dimensions curvilinear media….Pages 69-79
Some preliminary results about equilibrium surface model….Pages 80-89
Experimental study of the convective phenomena during the evaporation of aqueous solutions of sucrose….Pages 90-104
Experimental study of the competition between convective rolls in an enclosure….Pages 105-116
Surface deflection in Bénard-Marangoni convection….Pages 117-133
Cooling of small electronic devices by boiling under microgravity….Pages 134-149
Modelling of transient boiling in microgravity….Pages 150-165
Surface dynamics of surfactant solutions….Pages 166-174
The capillary pressure method: A new tool for interfacial tension measurements….Pages 175-185
Effects of evaporation-cond ensation on thermocapillary convection….Pages 186-192
Behaviour of the liquid between a solid particle and an approaching crystallization front: Forces balance….Pages 193-206
Disintegration of cylindrical liquid columns in liquid-fluid systems: Direct numerical simulation….Pages 207-226
Microwave heating as a tool for coupling Marangoni and Hickman instabilities….Pages 227-239
Pool boiling with an imposed electric field: Main results of a theoretical and experimental research….Pages 240-252
Toward a non-equilibrium non-linear thermodynamics….Pages 253-267