Thermal-solutal-induced bistability of evaporating multicomponent liquid thin films.

ABSTRACT: Volatile multicomponent liquid films show rich dynamics, due to the complex interplay of gradients in temperature and in solute concentrations. Here, we study the evaporation dynamics of a tricomponent liquid film, consisting of water, ethanol, and trans-anethole oil (known as "ouzo"). With the preferential evaporation of ethanol, cellular convective structures are observed both in the thermal patterns and in the nucleated oil droplet patterns. However, the feature sizes of these two patterns can differ, indicating dual instability mechanisms dominated by either temperature or solute concentration. Using numerical simulations, we quantitatively compare the contributions of temperature and solute concentration on the surface tension. Our results reveal that the thermal Marangoni effect pred

SUBMITTER: Wakata Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11831166 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature