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American Institute of Physics, Physics of Fluids, 3(21), p. 032105, 2009

DOI: 10.1063/1.3086039

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Marangoni-driven Spreading along Liquid-Liquid Interfaces

Journal article published in 2009 by Steffen Berg ORCID
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Abstract

Marangoni-driven spreading has been studied extensively at gas-liquid interfaces but so far the spreading kinetics along the interface between immiscible liquids has not been investigated systematically. For a demonstration of the mechanism the spreading kinetics of aqueous surfactant solutions along the interface between water and decane is measured experimentally using laser shadowgraphy. The leading edge follows a power law where the radius r as function of time t scales as r(t) t^3/4. Ater extending the existing model for spreading at air-liquid interfaces by taking the viscous dissipation in both fluid layers below and above the interface into account, quantitative agreement between experimental data and the model is obtained. Marangoni-driven spreading along an interface is a fast transport mechanism. The velocity of the leading edge is in the range of group velocities of capillary waves.