Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing

ISSN for PRINT: 1065-3090

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2003, Volume10

Issue 3-4

78 pages

DOI: 10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.v10.i34

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David F. Chao
Fluid Physics and Transport Branch, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135, USA

Nengli Zhang
Ohio Aerospace Institute at NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135, USA

Wen-Jei Yang
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, U.S.A.

The drop-refractive shadowgraph method is successfully applied to visualize thermocapillary convection flows in sessile drops. Different flow patterns are observed from the drop-refractive far-field shadowgraphic images of the sessile drops. The analysis based on a wave theory for caustics and caustic diffraction leads a new method to identify the profile near the three-phase-line region and estimate the drop-foot height, which is important for the study of spreading of evaporating liquid drops.

DOI: 10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.v10.i34.20 Download article, 12 pages

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