Tuesday, March 6, 2012

1203.0593 (Shunsuke Yabunaka et al.)

Self-propelled motion of a fluid droplet under chemical reaction    [PDF]

Shunsuke Yabunaka, Takao Ohta, Natsuhiko Yoshinaga
We study self-propelled dynamics of a droplet due to a Marangoni effect and chemical reactions in a binary fluid with a dilute third component of chemical product which affects the interfacial energy of a droplet. The equation for the migration velocity of the center of mass of a droplet is derived in the limit of an infinitesimally thin inter- face. We found that there is a bifurcation from a motionless state to a propagating state of droplet by changing the strength of the Marangoni effect.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0593

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