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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHASE FLOW
Volume 86, Issue -, Pages 28-34Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2016.07.011
Keywords
film flow; soluble surfactant; linear stability; Marangoni stresses
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- Program Hrakleitos II of the Greek Ministry of Education
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Gravity-driven film flow of aqueous solutions of SDS is studied experimentally and the evolution of small amplitude, regular inlet disturbances is investigated. With the addition of SDS, strong attenuation of nonlinear growth is observed, with traveling waves remaining relatively small in height and near-sinusoidal over an impressive parametric range. The critical Reynolds number of the primary instability rises by an order of magnitude. Maximum stabilization is observed at small surfactant loadings (characterized by surface tension 60-65 mN/m) and the critical Reynolds number gradually decreases with further addition of surfactant. Observations are interpreted by the competing effects of surface elasticity-which increases with the adsorbed SDS and intensifies Marangoni stresses- and surfactant mass transfer between bulk and interface-which also increases with the amount of SDS and mitigates interfacial gradients and Marangoni stresses. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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