Faraday Instability in a Surface-Frozen Liquid

Details Faraday Instability in a Surface-Frozen Liquid Faraday Instability in a Surface-Frozen Liquid

2005-04-08

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504056v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

4 pages, 3 figures. Physical Review Letters (in press)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.184504

Faraday surface instability measurements of the critical acceleration, a_c, and wavenumber, k_c, for standing surface waves on a tetracosanol (C_24H_50) melt exhibit abrupt changes at T_s=54degC above the bulk freezing temperature. The measured variations of a_c and k_c vs. temperature and driving frequency are accounted for quantitatively by a hydrodynamic model, revealing a change from a free-slip surface flow, generic for a free liquid surface (T>T_s), to a surface-pinned, no-slip flow, characteristic of a flow near a wetted solid wall (T < T_s). The change at T_s is traced to the onset of surface freezing, where the steep velocity gradient in the surface-pinned flow significantly increases the viscous dissipation near the surface.

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