Linear stability of a contaminated fluid flow down a slippery inclined plane

FA Bhat, A Samanta - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
The linear stability analysis of a fluid flow down a slippery inclined plane is carried out when
the free surface of the fluid is contaminated by a monolayer of insoluble surfactant. The aim …

Interplay of bulk soluble surfactants and interfacial kinetics governs the stability of two-layer channel flows

G Chakraborty, S Pramanik, U Ghosh - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The linear stability of two-layer channel flows in the presence of bulk-soluble surfactants is
investigated here, taking into account the rheological properties of the interface. The …

Thermocapillary instability of a surfactant-laden shear-imposed film flow

A Choudhury, A Samanta - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
We examine the linear thermocapillary instability of a two-dimensional gravity-driven shear-
imposed incompressible viscous film flowing over a uniformly heated inclined wall when the …

Viscoelastic film flows over an inclined substrate with sinusoidal topography. II. Linear stability analysis

D Pettas, G Karapetsas, Y Dimakopoulos… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
The linear hydrodynamic stability of a film of viscoelastic fluid flowing down an inclined wavy
surface is studied. We investigate the stability of the flow with respect to infinitesimal two-and …

The role of soluble surfactants in the linear stability of two-layer flow in a channel

A Kalogirou, MG Blyth - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
The linear stability of Couette–Poiseuille flow of two superposed fluid layers in a horizontal
channel is considered. The lower fluid layer is populated with surfactants that appear either …

Marangoni instabilities associated with heated surfactant-laden falling films

SJD D'Alessio, JP Pascal, E Ellaban… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Investigated in this paper is the stability of the gravity-driven flow of a liquid layer laden with
soluble surfactant down a heated incline. A mathematical model incorporating variations in …

Measurements of the stabilisation of liquid film flow by the soluble surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)

A Georgantaki, M Vlachogiannis… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Gravity-driven film flow of aqueous solutions of SDS is studied experimentally and the
evolution of small-amplitude, regular inlet disturbances is investigated. With the addition of …

Impact of wall-slip on the soluto-marangoni instability in a two-fluid system in a channel–Creeping flow scenario

A Agrawal, P Deepu, R Usha… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The role of wall-slip on the soluto-Marangoni instability that emerges in a two-fluid creeping
two-dimensional Poiseuille flow is assessed within the framework of Orr-Sommerfeld …

Thin liquid film stability in the presence of bottom topography and surfactant

E Zivkov, JP Pascal - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2025 - Elsevier
We consider gravity-driven fluid flow down a wavy inclined surface in the presence of
surfactant. The periodicity of the bottom topography allows us to leverage Floquet theory to …

Falling film with insoluble surfactants: effects of surface elasticity and surface viscosities

T Hu, Q Fu, L Yang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
The stability of a thin falling film with both surface elasticity and surface viscosities induced
by insoluble surfactants on its free surface is studied. Based on the full Navier–Stokes …