Wall-generated pattern on a periodically excited miscible liquid/liquid interface

Langmuir. 2015 May 26;31(20):5550-3. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b01229. Epub 2015 May 13.

Abstract

We present a new generic type of pattern generated by bounding walls on the interface between miscible liquids in a horizontally vibrated cell. The pattern is observed in laboratory experiments and numerical simulations below and above the frozen-wave instability threshold. At the threshold, a competition develops between the new "fish-spine" pattern and frozen waves, while above the threshold these two kinds of patterns may coexist in spatially separated domains. We propose a theoretical model for the formation mechanism of the fish-spine pattern and its spreading along the interface.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Models, Theoretical*