Main description:

The present set of lectures and tutorial reviews deals with various topical aspects related to instabilities of interfacial processes and driven flows from both the theoretical and experimental point of views. New research has been spurred by demands for many applications in material sciences (melting, solidification, electro deposition), biomedical engineering and processing in microgravity environments. This book is intended as both a modern source of reference for researchers in the field as well as an introduction to postgraduate students and non-specialists from related areas.

Contents:

Large Wavelength Disturbances in Two-Fluid Benard-Marangoni Convection and Their Control.- Convective Instabilities in Layered Systems.- Salt-Finger Instability Generated by Surface-Tension and Buoyancy-Driven Convection in a Stratified Fluid Layer.- Observations on Interfacial Convection in Multiple Layers without and with Evaporation.- General Approach to the Linear Stability of Thin Spreading Films.- Thermocapillary Convection in Cylindrical Geometries.- Surface Tension Driven Flow of Molten Silicon: Its Instability and the Effect of Oxygen.- Low-Prandtl-Number Marangoni Convection Driven by Localized Heating on the Free Surface: Results of Three-Dimensional Direct Simulations.- Thermocapillary Flows and Vorticity Singularity.- Unsteady Thermocapillary Flow and Free Surface Deformation in a Thin Liquid Layer.- The Influence of Static and Dynamic Free-Surface Deformations on the Three-Dimensional Thermocapillary Flow in Liquid Bridges.- The Choice of the Critical Mode of Hydrothermal Instability in Liquid Bridge.- Thermocapillary Droplet Migration on an Inclined Solid Surface.- Electrocapillary Flows.- Direct Simulation of Drop Fragmentation under Simple Shear.- Dynamics, Stability and Solidification of an Emulsion under the Action of Thermocapillary Forces and Microgravity.- Non-equilibrium Phase Change.