Thermocapillary flows and interface deformations produced by localized laser heating in confined environment

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2012-03-08

arxiv.org/abs/1203.1789v1

Physics of Fluids 24 (2012) 032102

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3690160

The deformation of a fluid-fluid interface due to the thermocapillary stress induced by a continuous Gaussian laser wave is investigated analytically. We show that the direction of deformation of the liquid interface strongly depends on the viscosities and the thicknesses of the involved liquid layers. We first investigate the case of an interface separating two different liquid layers while a second part is dedicated to a thin film squeezed by two external layers of same liquid. These results are predictive for applications fields where localized thermocapillary stresses are used to produce flows or to deform interfaces in presence of confinement, such as optofluidics.

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