Fluid mechanics of liquid metal batteries

DH Kelley, T Weier - Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The design and performance of liquid metal batteries (LMBs), a new technology for grid-
scale energy storage, depend on fluid mechanics because the battery electrodes and …

Pattern formation and mass transfer under stationary solutal Marangoni instability

K Schwarzenberger, T Köllner, H Linde, T Boeck… - Advances in colloid and …, 2014 - Elsevier
According to the seminal theory by Sternling and Scriven [1], solutal Marangoni convection
during mass transfer of surface-active solutes may occur as either oscillatory or stationary …

Thermal Rayleigh-Marangoni convection in a three-layer liquid-metal-battery model

T Köllner, T Boeck, J Schumacher - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
The combined effects of buoyancy-driven Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RC) and surface
tension-driven Marangoni convection (MC) are studied in a triple-layer configuration which …

Surface deformation and film corrugation during drying of polymer solutions induced by Marangoni phenomena

SG Yiantsios, SK Serpetsi, F Doumenc… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Solutal Marangoni phenomena occurring during drying of polymer solutions are investigated
through numerical simulations. Bénard–Marangoni convection and free surface deformation …

Diffusion-controlled spontaneous emulsification of water-soluble oils via micelle swelling

CR Davis, CJ Martinez, JA Howarter, KA Erk - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Spontaneous emulsification of toluene, xylenes, cyclohexane, and mineral oil in a nonionic
nonylphenol polyethoxylate surfactant solution was investigated by visual observations …

Relaxation oscillations of solutal Marangoni convection at curved interfaces

K Schwarzenberger, S Aland, H Domnick… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2015 - Elsevier
Relaxation oscillations in a two-phase system, consisting of paraffin oil and water, with 2-
propanol initially dissolved in the oil phase, are observed as a periodic decay and re …

Marangoni instability triggered by selective evaporation of a binary liquid inside a Hele-Shaw cell

RAL De La Cruz, C Diddens, X Zhang… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Interfacial stability is important for many processes involving heat and mass transfer across
two immiscible phases. For the evaporation of a binary solution with one component more …

Orange peel formation due to surface tension-driven flows within drying paint films

N Saranjam, S Chandra, J Mostaghimi, H Fan… - Journal of Coatings …, 2016 - Springer
Paint films with uniform thicknesses ranging from 150 to 820 μm were applied on stainless
steel substrates using a model paint consisting of a resin dissolved in butanol and the test …

Experimental study on the influence of gravitational tilt angle on the spatio-temporal evolution of solutocapillary convection

S Yang, D Qin, Y Zhang, L Xu, Y Fu, J Cui, H Pan - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper investigated the influence of surface internal energy instability caused by the
gravitational tilt angle on solutocapillary convection. The results showed that the spatio …

Influence of microscopic precipitate structures on macroscopic pattern formation in reactive flows in a confined geometry

E Balog, K Bittmann, K Schwarzenberger… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Thanks to the coupling between chemical precipitation reactions and hydrodynamics, new
dynamic phenomena may be obtained and new types of materials can be synthesized. Here …