2 papers
patt-sol1995
Onset of Surface-Tension-Driven Benard Convection
Michael F. Schatz, Stephen J. VanHook, William D. McCormick +2
Experiments with shadowgraph visualization reveal a subcritical transition to a hexagonal convection pattern in thin liquid layers that have a free upper surface and are heated fro…
patt-sol1995
Long-Wavelength Instability in Surface-Tension-Driven Benard Convection
Stephen J. Vanhook, Michael F. Schatz, William D. McCormick +2
Laboratory studies reveal a deformational instability that leads to a drained region (dry spot) in an initially flat liquid layer (with a free upper surface) heated uniformly from…