Influence of the heating rate on the critical Marangoni number of oscillatory thermocapillary convection in the floating half zone

Abstract

In the present study, numerical simulations were conducted on thermocapillary convection in floating half zones of 5 cSt silicone oil of different scales in comparison with the experimental studies in the microgravity conditions. The effect of heating rate on the marginal instability boundaries is indicated as a possible explanation for the significant quantitative discrepancies between the experimental results in the terrestrial conditions and in the microgravity conditions.