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Spontaneous oscillations due to solutal Marangoni instability: air/water interface

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Kovalchuk N.

Open Chemistry

2012

vol. 10

issue 5

1423-1441

Systems far from equilibrium are able to self-organize and often demonstrate the formation of a large variety of dissipative structures. In systems with free liquid interfaces, self-organization is frequently associated with Marangoni instability. The development of solutal Marangoni instability can have specific features depending on the properties of adsorbed surfactant monolayer. Here we discuss a general approach to describe solutal Marangoni instability and review in details the recent experimental and theoretical results for a system where the specific properties of adsorbed layers are crucial for the observed dynamic regimes. In this system, Marangoni instability is a result of surfactant transfer from a small droplet located in the bulk of water to air/water interface. Various dynamic regimes, such as quasi-steady convection with a monotonous decrease of surface tension, spontaneous oscillations of surface tension, or their combination, are predicted by numerical simulations and observed experimentally. The particular dynamic regime and oscillation characteristics depend on the surfactant properties and the system aspect ratio. [...]

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Spontaneous oscillations due to solutal Marangoni instability: air/water interface