par Buffone, Cosimo 
;Sefiane, Khellil;Minetti, Christophe ;Mamalis, Dimitrios
Référence Applied physics letters, 107, 4, 041606
Publication Publié, 2015-07
;Sefiane, Khellil;Minetti, Christophe ;Mamalis, DimitriosRéférence Applied physics letters, 107, 4, 041606
Publication Publié, 2015-07
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | A standing wave has been detected in the evaporating meniscus formed on an organic liquid (acetone) inside a horizontally positioned capillary tube of 1mm internal diameter. The standing wave is believed to originate from the interaction between surface tension and gravitational forces. We found that the standing wave ensues only at the upper part of the meniscus interface where gravity and surface tension act in the opposite direction. This experimental observation is similar to standing waves observed in floating zones in microgravity but different from travelling waves reported recently in volatile drops; in both cases the waves are produced by temperature differences along a liquid-vapour interface. By employing InfraRed thermography, we recorded the temperature distribution of the meniscus interface, and we found that the first characteristic frequency of the standing wave is around 0.3Hz. |
