A half-zone experimental set-up was used to study the effects of various liquid bridge and helium flow parameters on the onset of thermocapillary convection in silicone oil liquid bridges. Experiments confirmed that helium flow has a stabilizing effect, with the effect increasing with helium velocity. Furthermore, helium flow in the same direction as surface flow due to Marangoni convection had a more stabilizing effect than countercurrent flow.
It was established that increasing helium temperature has a mixed effect, producing a less stable bridge at low helium flow rates, but a more stable flow pattern at higher helium flow rates. Finally, it was confirmed that decreasing the cold disk temperature results in a decrease in critical temperature difference.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/42847 |
| Date | 22 November 2013 |
| Creators | Giddings, Eric |
| Contributors | Kawaji, Masahiro |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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