Solubility enhanced surfactant-induced flow in air-liquid-air sheets

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Auteurs principaux: Eshima, Jun, Aurégan, Tristan, Villermaux, Emmanuel, Stone, Howard A., Deike, Luc
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author Eshima, Jun
Aurégan, Tristan
Villermaux, Emmanuel
Stone, Howard A.
Deike, Luc
author_facet Eshima, Jun
Aurégan, Tristan
Villermaux, Emmanuel
Stone, Howard A.
Deike, Luc
contents Liquid interfaces appear throughout nature and engineering and are typically contaminated by surface active agents (surfactants), which are characterized by a wide range of solubility. We demonstrate that solubility enhances by an order of magnitude surfactant-induced flow in air-liquid-air films, in contrast to previously studied geometries where solubility dampens the flow. The enhancement is described by a single parameter comparing the depletion length to the film thickness. Our experiments are well described by an asymptotic theory of the Navier-Stokes equations with surfactant kinetics.
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spellingShingle Solubility enhanced surfactant-induced flow in air-liquid-air sheets
Eshima, Jun
Aurégan, Tristan
Villermaux, Emmanuel
Stone, Howard A.
Deike, Luc
Fluid Dynamics
Soft Condensed Matter
Liquid interfaces appear throughout nature and engineering and are typically contaminated by surface active agents (surfactants), which are characterized by a wide range of solubility. We demonstrate that solubility enhances by an order of magnitude surfactant-induced flow in air-liquid-air films, in contrast to previously studied geometries where solubility dampens the flow. The enhancement is described by a single parameter comparing the depletion length to the film thickness. Our experiments are well described by an asymptotic theory of the Navier-Stokes equations with surfactant kinetics.
title Solubility enhanced surfactant-induced flow in air-liquid-air sheets
topic Fluid Dynamics
Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00921