The Thickness of a Marangoni-Driven Thin Liquid Film Emerging from a Meniscus

In this paper, we revisit experiments in which a thin liquid film forms at the tip of a capillary meniscus due to the presence of a thermally induced Marangoni shear stress. Starting from basic fluid mechanical equations, we devise a model for which numerical solutions show that it is able to accurately predict the thickness of the film, in contrast to earlier theories [Fanton, Cazabat, and Qu

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: SIAMAM
• Authors: Andreas Münch
• Keywords: Capillary Meniscus, Fluid Mechanical Equations, SIAMAM 2002, Small Capillary Numbers