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Shreyas Mandre - Surfactants driven out of equilibrium by a flow

Dates:21 April 2021
Times:14:00 - 15:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:Department of Mathematics
Who is it for:University staff, External researchers, Current University students
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Shreyas Mandre (Warwick) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series

This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please email alice.thompson@manchester.ac.uk if you require the meeting details.

A surfactant is a chemical compound that adsorbs onto a fluid-fluid interface and reduces its surface tension. A non-uniform distribution of such compounds at the interface causes a Marangoni stress that drives a flow, which in turn transports the surfactant. Estimating in situ the degree to which the adsorbed surfactant is out of equilibrium with the dissolved state is critical but challenging, especially because of the multiple length- and time-scales the surfactant and flow dynamics span. In this presentation, I show that combining asymptotic analysis of the governing mathematical model with experimental flow visualization and velocimetry can furnish a near-complete description of the dynamics.

An epitome of such a system is the axisymmetric flow driven by a steady point source of surfactant on the surface of a deep liquid pool. In this case, the state of the surfactant is difficult to gauge, without which even simple order-of-magnitude scaling theories remain incomplete. I show that by examining three invariant characteristics of the flow, and without knowledge of the surfactant physicochemical parameters, the nature of the surfactant dynamics can be deduced.

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