TY - CHAP A1 - Borcia, Rodica A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Egbers, Christoph T1 - Surface effects at the mixing of two perfectly miscible components in a thin liquid film T2 - International Topical Team Workshop on Two-Phase Systems for Ground and Space Applications, ITTW 2013 Y1 - 2013 UR - http://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/ITTW2013/abstracts/ITTW2013_Book-of-Abstracts.pdf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Borcia, Ion-Dan A1 - Borcia, Rodica A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Egbers, Christoph T1 - Drops on cylindrical wires T2 - International Topical Team Workshop on Two-Phase Systems for Ground and Space Applications, ITTW 2013 Y1 - 2013 UR - http://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/ITTW2013/abstracts/ITTW2013_Book-of-Abstracts.pdf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Borcia, Ion-Dan A1 - Borcia, Rodica A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Borcia, C. A1 - Dumitrascu, N. A1 - Egbers, Christoph T1 - Drops on cylindrical surfaces T2 - 7th Conference of the International Marangoni Association, Vienna (Austria), June 23-26, 2014 Y1 - 2014 UR - http://ima7.conf.tuwien.ac.at/AbstractsIMA7.pdf SP - S. 33 PB - Techn. Univ. CY - Vienna ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reif, Jürgen A1 - Varlamova, Olga A1 - Varlamov, Sergej A1 - Bestehorn, Michael ED - Phipps, Claude R. T1 - The role of asymmetric excitation in self-organized nanostructure formation upon femtosecondlaser ablation T2 - International Symposium on High Power Laser Ablation 2012, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 30 April - 3 May 2012 Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-7354-1068-8 SP - 428 EP - 441 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - GEN A1 - Varlamova, Olga A1 - Reif, Jürgen A1 - Varlamov, Sergej A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Modeling of the Laser Polarization as Control Parameter in Self-Organized Surface Pattern T2 - Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Y1 - 2011 SN - 1533-4880 VL - 11 IS - 10 SP - 9274 EP - 9281 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Varlamova, Olga A1 - Costache, Florenta Adriana A1 - Reif, Jürgen A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Self-organized pattern formation upon femtosecond laser ablation by circular polarized light T2 - Applied Surface Science Y1 - 2006 SN - 0169-4332 VL - 252 IS - 13 SP - 4702 EP - 4706 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Reif, Jürgen A1 - Costache, Florenta Adriana A1 - Eckert, Sebastian A1 - Kouteva-Arguirova, Simona A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Georgescu, Ionut A1 - Semorek, A. F. A1 - Martin, P. A1 - Gobert, O. A1 - Seifert, Winfried T1 - Formation of self-organized regular nanostructures upon femtosecond laser ablation T2 - Fifth International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication, 11 - 14 May, 2004, Nara, Japan Y1 - 2004 SN - 0-8194-5623-3 SP - S. 737 PB - SPIE CY - Bellingham, Wash. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Varlamova, Olga A1 - Reif, Jürgen A1 - Varlamov, Sergej A1 - Bestehorn, Michael ED - Sakabe, Shuji ED - Lienau, Christoph ED - Grunwald, Rüdiger T1 - Self-organized Surface Patterns Originatin from Laser-Induced Instability T2 - Progress in nonlinear nano-optics Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-319-12216-8 SN - 3-319-12216-9 SP - 3 EP - 29 PB - Springer CY - Cham [u.a.] ER - TY - GEN A1 - Cheng, Philip A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Firoozabadi, Abbas T1 - Effect of permeability anisotropy on density-driven flow for CO2 sequestration in saline aquifers T2 - Water Resources Research N2 - Solubility trapping of carbon dioxide (CO2) in deep saline aquifers is considered one of the most effective methods for carbon sequestration. Dissolution of CO2 into the brine may create gravitational instabilities that lead to the onset of convection, which greatly enhances the storage efficiency and reduces the possibilities of leakage. Convection appears in the form of downward traveling fingers of relatively dense, CO2-dissolved fluid. Many natural aquifer formations display considerable permeability anisotropy, where the horizontal permeability kh may be several times greater than the vertical permeability kz. It has been previously found that increasing kh for a fixed kz reduces the critical time tc at which onset occurs and the critical wavelength λc with which the fingers initially form. We extend earlier work by showing how and why this occurs. Our results reveal new insights about λc. We have studied the behavior for times greater than tc using high-resolution numerical simulations. We show that the enhanced dissolution from convection can become significant much earlier in anisotropic media. Furthermore, the effects of anisotropy may be sustained for a long period of time. Our results suggest that permeability anisotropy can allow a wider range of aquifer formations to be considered for effective sequestration. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2012WR011939/abstract U6 - https://doi.org/10.1029/2012WR011939 SN - 1944-7973 VL - 48 IS - 9 SP - W09539 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Firoozabadi, Abbas T1 - Effect of fluctuations on the onset of density-driven convection in porous media T2 - Physics of Fluids N2 - We study the dissolution of CO2 in saline aquifers. The long diffusion times can be accelerated by orders of magnitude from mass transfer that origins from convection.Convection occurs at a critical time via a phase transition from the horizontally homogeneous diffusion state. To start the instability, perturbations that break the horizontal translation symmetry are necessary. We start with the basic equations and the boundary conditions, examine the linearized equations around the diffusive time and z-dependent base state and compare different definitions of the critical time found in the literature. Taking a simple model we show the role of fluctuations for delayed instabilities if the control parameter is slowly swept through the bifurcation point. Apart from the critical time we use a “visible” time where convection is manifested in the vertical CO2 transport. We specify the perturbations with respect to their strength and length scale, and compute the critical times for various cases by numerical integration of the basic equations in two spatial dimensions. Fluctuating concentration at the upper boundary, fluctuating porosity as well fluctuating permeability are studied in detail. For the permeability fluctuation, the compressibility of the fluid becomes important and the velocity field cannot be derived from a stream function. Our work also includes non-isothermal conditions with a prescribed vertical geothermal gradient and space dependent thermal conductivity. Temperature fields for different standard configurations are computed numerically and serve as starting condition for density-driven convection. Based on our work, we conclude that the visible time is much larger than the critical time. The visible time is a strong function of strength and length scale of the perturbations. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pof2/24/11/10.1063/1.4767467 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4767467 SN - 1089-7666 VL - 24 IS - 11 SP - 114102 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Reif, Jürgen A1 - Varlamova, Olga A1 - Uhlig, Sebastian A1 - Varlamov, Sergej A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - On the physics of self-organized nanostructure formation upon femtosecond laser ablation T2 - Applied Physics A N2 - We present new results on femtosecond LIPSS on silicon, fostering the dynamic model of self-organized structure formation. The first set of experiments demonstrates LIPSS formation by irradiation with a femtosecond white light continuum. The ripples are, as usual, perpendicular to the light polarization with a fluence-dependent wavelength between 500 and 700 nm. At higher dose (fluence × number of shots), the LIPSS turn to much coarser structures. The second set of experiments displays the dose dependence of pattern evolution at about threshold fluence. In contrast to the general case of multi-pulse LIPSS, where a strong dependence of the structures on the laser polarization is observed, single-shot exposition of silicon at about the ablation threshold results in a concentric pattern of very regular sub-wavelength ripples following the oval shape of the irradiated spot, without any reference to the laser polarization. When increasing the number of pulses, the usual, typical ripples develop and then coalesce into broader perpendicular structures, interlaced with remnants of the first, finer ripples. Y1 - 2014 UR - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00339-014-8339-x U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-014-8339-x SN - 0947-8396 SN - 1432-0630 VL - 117 IS - 1 SP - 179 EP - 184 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Laterally Extended Thin Liquid Films with inertia Under External Vibrations T2 - Physics of Fluids N2 - We consider thin liquid films on a horizontal, solid, and completely wetting substrate. The substrate is subjected to oscillatory accelerations in the normal direction and/or in the horizontal direction. A linear Floquet analysis shows that the planar film surface loses stability if amplitudes and frequencies of the harmonic oscillations meet certain criteria. Based on the long wave lubrication approximation, we present an integral boundary layer model where the z component is integrated out and the spatial dimension is reduced by one. The linear stability analysis of this model shows good agreement with the exact problem and with the linearized long wave equations. Pattern formation in the nonlinear regime is computed numerically from the long wave model in two and three spatial dimensions. Normal oscillations show the traditional Faraday patterns such as squares and hexagons. Lateral oscillations cause a pattern formation scenario similar to spinodal dewetting, namely coarsening and no rupture. For certain amplitude and frequency ranges, combined lateral and normal oscillations can give rise to one or more traveling drops. Finally, we discuss the control of a drop's motion in the horizontal plane. KW - Lubrication KW - Coarsening KW - Pattern formation KW - Boundary value problems KW - Van der Waals forces Y1 - 2013 UR - http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pof2/25/11/10.1063/1.4830255 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4830255 SN - 1089-7666 VL - 25 IS - 11 SP - 114106 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Han, Qi A1 - Oron, Alexander T1 - Nonlinear Pattern Formation in Thin Liqiud Films Under External Vibrations T2 - Physical Review E N2 - We study a thin liquid film with a free surface on a planar horizontal substrate. The substrate is subjected to oscillatory accelerations in the normal and/or in the horizontal direction(s). The description is based on the longwave approximation including inertia effects, which are important due to the large velocities imparted by external vibrations. The linearized system is examined using the Floquet analysis. Pattern formation in the nonlinear regime is computed numerically from the longwave equations for the thickness and the flow rate of the fluid in two and in three spatial dimensions. For certain amplitude and frequency ranges, combined lateral and normal oscillations can give rise to one or more traveling drops, similar to recent experimental findings by Brunet et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 144501 (2007)]. Y1 - 2013 UR - http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.023025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.023025 SN - 2470-0053 VL - 88 IS - 2 SP - 023025 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Regular Hexagons and Stripes on Marangoni and Rayleigh-Taylor unstable volatile thin films T2 - European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids N2 - Thin volatile Newtonian liquid films with a free surface on a cooled horizontal substrate are studied theoretically and numerically. We show that if the fluid is initially in equilibrium with its own vapor in the gas phase, regular surface deformation patterns in the form of long-wave hexagons or stripes having a well defined lateral length scale are observed, depending on the instability mechanism. This is different to the case without evaporation where rupture or coarsening to larger and larger spatially disordered patterns is seen in the long time limit. We propose to use such a system to create a regular structuring of the film’s surface. Heat production by latent heat and the influence of a temperature dependent surface tension (Marangoni effect) are included as well. Special emphasis is laid on the so-called anomalous Marangoni effect. In this case a parameter region where stripes should occur already at threshold is found by means of a systematic weakly non-linear analysis. KW - Thin films KW - Rayleigh–Taylor instability KW - Marangoni effect KW - Convection KW - Evaporation KW - Pattern formation Y1 - 2014 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0997754613001477 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2013.12.005 VL - 47 SP - 48 EP - 56 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Borcia, Rodica A1 - Borcia, Ion-Dan A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Nonlinear dynamics of thin liqiud films consisting of two miscible components T2 - Physical Review E N2 - Recently, we systematically derived a system of two coupled conservation equations governing a thin liquid layer with a deformable surface composed of two completely miscible components [Phys. Fluids 22, 104102 (2010)]. One equation describes the location of the free surface and the second one the evolution of the mean concentration. This lubrication model was investigated previously in linearized form. The study is now extended to the fully nonlinear case of thin liquid films of a binary mixture (in one and two horizontal spatial dimensions) with and without heat transport. For an initially flat and motionless film heated from below, we analyze the component separation induced by the Soret effect. Nonlinear simulations show that the Soret effect can cause a multitude of interesting behaviors, such as oscillatory patterns and solitonlike structures (localized traveling drops or holes). A stronger component separation induced by stronger Soret effects favors faster-moving localized structures. For isothermal systems, we study the fusion and the mixing of two thin liquid films of different but perfectly miscible liquids. Marangoni-driven forces can cause delayed coalescence, ripple formation, and fingering patterns at the borderline between the two liquid layers. A systematic analysis for ripple pattern formation and finger instabilities at different diffusion constants shows that these phenomena appear more pronounced for lower diffusion in the system. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056319 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056319 SN - 2470-0053 VL - 86 IS - 5 SP - 056319 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Borcia, Rodica A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Partial coalescence of sessile drops with different miscible liquids T2 - Langmuir N2 - Using computer simulations in three spatial dimensions, we examine the interaction between two deformable drops consisting of two perfectly miscible liquids sitting on a solid substrate under a given contact angle. Driven by capillarity and assisted by Marangoni effects at the droplet interfaces, several distinct coalescence regimes are achieved after the droplets’ collision. Y1 - 2013 UR - http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/la3050835?src=recsys U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/la3050835 SN - 1520-5827 VL - 29 IS - 14 SP - 4426 EP - 4429 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Borcia, Rodica A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - A phase field description of self-propulsion of twin sessile drops induced by surface tension gradients T2 - Fluid Dynamics Research N2 - We describe the self-propulsion of two sessile drops induced by surface tension gradients at the droplet interfaces using a three-dimensional phase field model. We study the problem for the low viscosity regime when the width of the connecting neck between the interacting drops increases linearly with increasing t1/2 and the merger is dominated by capillary forces. We investigate the dependence of the displacement achieved by self-propulsion on viscous shearing as well as the internal flow structure during the coalescence process. KW - Drops Y1 - 2014 UR - http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0169-5983/46/4/041405/meta U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/0169-5983/46/4/041405 SN - 0169-5983 VL - 46 IS - 4 SP - 041405 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Borcia, Rodica A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Phase field modelling of non-equilibrium patterns on the surface of a liquid film under lateral oscillations at the substrate T2 - International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos N2 - We use a phase field model which couples the generalized Navier–Stokes equation (including the Korteweg stress tensor) with the continuity equation for studying nonlinear pattern formation on the surface of a liquid film under (linear and circular) lateral harmonic vibrations at the solid substrate. First, we prove the thermodynamic consistency of our phase field model. Next, we present computer simulations in three spatial dimensions. We illustrate nonequilibrium patterns at the instability onset, confirming in this way the results recently reported in Phys. Rev. E 88, 023025 (2013). The lateral profiles of the deflected surface are compared with those reported in J. Fluid Mech. 686, 409 (2011) for Faraday instability excited by vertical harmonic vibrations at the bottom plate. Y1 - 2014 UR - http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218127414501107 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127414501107 SN - 0218-1274 SN - 1793-6551 VL - 24 IS - 9 SP - 1450110 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Borcia, Rodica A1 - Borcia, Ion-Dan A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Can vibrations control drop motion? T2 - Langmuir N2 - We discuss a mechanism for controlled motion of drops with applications for microfluidics and microgravity. The mechanism is the following: a solid plate supporting a liquid droplet is simultaneously subject to lateral and vertical harmonic oscillations. In this way the symmetry of the back-and-forth droplet movement along the substrate under inertial effects is broken and thus will induce a net driven motion of the drop. We study the dependency of the traveled distance on the oscillation parameters (forcing amplitude, frequency, and phase shift between the two perpendicular oscillations) via phase field simulations. The internal flow structure inside the droplet is also investigated. We make predictions on resonance frequencies for drops on a substrate with a varying wettability. Y1 - 2014 UR - http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la503415r U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/la503415r SN - 1520-5827 SN - 1864-5631 VL - 30 IS - 47 SP - 14113 EP - 14117 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Pototsky, Andrey A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Faraday instability of a two-layer liquid film with a free upper surface T2 - Physical Review Fluids N2 - We study the linear stability of a laterally extended flat two-layer liquid film under the influence of external vertical vibration. The first liquid layer rests on a vibrating solid plate and is overlaid by a second layer of immiscible fluid with deformable upper surface. Surface waves, excited as the result of the Faraday instability, can be characterized by a time-dependent relative amplitude of the displacements of the liquid-liquid and the liquid-gas interfaces. The in-phase displacements are associated with a zigzag (barotropic) mode and the antiphase displacement corresponds to the varicose thinning mode. We numerically determine the stability threshold in the vibrated two-layer film and compute the dispersion relation together with the decay rates of the surface waves in the absence of vibration. The in-phase and the antiphase displacements are strongly coupled in the vibrated system. The interplay between the Faraday and the Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in the system with heavier fluid on top of a lighter fluid is analyzed. Y1 - 2016 UR - http://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.023901 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.023901 SN - 2469-990X VL - 1 IS - 2 SP - 023901-1 EP - 023901-18 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Pototsky, Andrey T1 - Faraday instability and nonlinear pattern formation of a two-layer system: A reduced model T2 - Physical Review Fluids N2 - Stability and pattern formation of a two-layer liquid system with large aspect ratio subjected to vertical harmonic oscillations is studied by means of an integrated boundary layer model. The lower layer rests on an oscillating solid substrate, the upper layer is separated by a deformable interface from the lower layer and bounded at the top with a second, free interface to the ambient passive air. The model is derived from the Navier-Stokes equations in long-wave approximation, including inertial terms. Applying a Floquet analysis, linear stability charts and dispersion relations are computed and compared with results from the full linearized Navier-Stokes equations and the long-wave approximation. Nonlinear Faraday patterns simultaneously occurring at the interface and at the film surface are studied by numerically solving the integrated boundary layer model in two and three spatial dimensions. For gravitationally stable two-layer films with a lighter fluid on top of the heavier fluid, we find squares, hexagons, quasiperiodic patterns with eightfold symmetry as well as localized states in the form of large scale depletion regions or finite depth holes, occurring at the interface and surface. For a Rayleigh-Taylor unstable combination (heavier fluid above the light one) we show that external vibration increases the lifetime of the film by delaying or completely suppressing the film rupture. Y1 - 2016 UR - http://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.063905 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.063905 SN - 2469-990X VL - 1 IS - 6 SP - 063905-1 EP - 063905-24 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Borcia, Rodica A1 - Borcia, Ion-Dan A1 - Helbig, Markus A1 - Meier, Martin A1 - Egbers, Christoph A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Dancing drops over vibrating substrates T2 - The European Physical Journal Special Topics KW - Thin Film Instabilities Y1 - 2017 UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60202-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60202-6 SN - 1951-6355 SN - 1951-6401 VL - 226 IS - 6 SP - 1297 EP - 1306 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Richter, Sebastian A1 - Bestehorn, Michael T1 - Thin-film Faraday patterns in three dimensions T2 - The European Physical Journal Special Topics N2 - We investigate the long time evolution of a thin fluid layer in three spatial dimensions located on a horizontal planar substrate. The substrate is subjected to time-periodic external vibrations in normal and in tangential direction with respect to the plane surface. The governing partial differential equation system of our model is obtained from the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations considering the limit of a thin fluid geometry and using the long wave lubrication approximation. It includes inertia and viscous friction. Numerical simulations evince the existence of persistent spatially complex surface patterns (periodic and quasiperiodic) for certain superpositions of two vertical excitations and initial conditions. Additional harmonic lateral excitations cause deformations but retain the basic structure of the patterns. Horizontal ratchet-shaped forces lead to a controllable lateral movement of the fluid. A Floquet analysis is used to determine the stability of the linearized system. KW - Thin Film Instabilities Y1 - 2017 UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60234-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60234-4 SN - 1951-6401 SN - 1951-6355 VL - 226 IS - 6 SP - 1253 EP - 1261 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sterman-Cohen, Elad A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Oron, Alexander T1 - Rayleigh-Taylor instability in thin liquid films subjected to harmonic vibration T2 - Physics of Fluids N2 - The dynamics of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a two-dimensional thin liquid film placed on the underside of a planar substrate subjected to either normal or tangential harmonic forcing is investigated here in the framework of a set of long-wave evolution equations accounting for inertial effects derived earlier by Bestehorn, Han, and Oron [“Nonlinear pattern formation in thin liquid films under external vibrations,” Phys. Rev. E 88, 023025 (2013)]. In the case of tangential vibration, the linear stability analysis of the time-periodic base state with a flat interface shows the existence of the domain of wavenumbers where the film is unstable. In the case of normal vibration, the linear stability analysis of the quiescent base state reveals that the instability threshold of the system is depicted by a combination of distinct thresholds separate for the Rayleigh-Taylor and Faraday instabilities. The nonlinear dynamics of the film interface in the case of the static substrate results in film rupture. However, in the presence of the substrate vibration in the lateral direction, the film interface saturates in certain domains in the parameter space via the mechanism of advection induced by forcing, so that the continuity of the film interface is preserved even in the domains of linear instability while undergoing the time-periodic harmonic evolution. On the other hand, sufficiently strong forcing introduces a new inertial mode of rupture. In the case of the normal vibration, the film evolution may exhibit time-periodic, harmonic or subharmonic saturated waves apart of rupture. The enhancement of the frequency or amplitude of the substrate forcing promotes the destabilization of the system and a tendency to film rupture at the nonlinear stage of its evolution. A possibility of saturation of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability by either normal or unidirectional tangential forcing in three dimensions is also demonstrated. KW - Materials KW - Condensed matter properties KW - Interfaces KW - Liquid surfaces KW - Lasers KW - Surface and interface chemistry KW - Surfaces KW - Optical metrology KW - Thermal effects KW - Thin films Y1 - 2017 UR - https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4984082 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4984082 SN - 1089-7666 VL - 29 IS - 5 SP - 052105-1 EP - 052105-17 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sterman-Cohen, Elad A1 - Bestehorn, Michael A1 - Oron, Alexander T1 - Ratchet flow of thin liquid films induced by a two-frequency tangential forcing T2 - Physics of Fluids N2 - A possibility of saturating Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a thin liquid film on the underside of a substrate in the gravity field by harmonic vibration of the substrate was recently investigated [E. Sterman-Cohen, M. Bestehorn, and A. Oron, Phys. Fluids 29, 052105 (2017); Erratum, Phys. Fluids 29, 109901 (2017)]. In the present work, we investigate the feasibility of creating a directional flow of the fluid in a film in the Rayleigh-Taylor configuration and controlling its flow rate by applying a two-frequency tangential forcing to the substrate. It is shown that in this situation, a ratchet flow develops, and the dependence of its flow rate on the vibration frequency, amplitude, its periodicity, and asymmetry level is investigated for water and silicone-oil films. A cause for the emergence of symmetry-breaking and an ensuing flow in a preferred direction is discussed. Some aspects of a ratchet flow in a liquid film placed on top of the substrate are discussed as well. A comparison with the case of a neglected fluid inertia is made, and the differences are explained. KW - Materials KW - Microfluidics KW - Materials science KW - Polymers KW - Fluidics KW - Applied fluid dynamics KW - Navier Stokes equations KW - Rheology and fluid dynamics KW - Thin films KW - Statistical physics Y1 - 2018 UR - https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5010262 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5010262 SN - 1089-7666 VL - 30 IS - 2 SP - 022101-1 EP - 022101-13 ER -