Long-wave Marangoni instability in a binary liquid layer on a thick solid substrate

Abstract

We consider a system which consists of a layer of an incompressible binary liquid with a deformable free surface, and a thick solid substrate subjected to a differential heating across it. We investigate the long-wave thermosolutal Marangoni instability in the case of asymptotically small Lewis and Galileo numbers for finite capillary and Biot numbers with the Soret effect taken into account. We find both long-wave monotonic and oscillatory modes of instability in various parameter domains of Biot and Soret numbers. In the domain of finite wave numbers the monotonic instability is found, but the minimum of the monotonic neutral curve is shown to be located in the long-wave region. A set of nonlinear evolution equations is derived for the description of the spatiotemporal dynamics of the oscillatory instability. The weakly nonlinear analysis is carried out for the monotonic instability.