Marangoni convection in droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces

We consider a small droplet of water sitting on top of a heated superhydrophobic surface. A toroidal convection pattern develops in which fluid is observed to rise along the surface of the spherical droplet and to accelerate downwards in the interior towards the liquid/solid contact point. The inter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tam, Daniel, Graf von Arnim, Joachim, McKinley, Gareth H., Anette E. Hosoi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78603
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4940-7496
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8323-2779