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Confinement-induced drift in Marangoni-driven transport of surfactant: a Lagrangian perspective

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Successive drops of coloured ink mixed with surfactant are deposited onto a thin film of water to create marbling patterns in the Japanese art technique of Suminagashi. To understand the physics behind this and other applications where surfactant transports adsorbed passive matter at gas–liquid interfaces, we investigate the Lagrangian trajectories of material particles on the surface of a thin film of a confined viscous liquid under Marangoni-driven spreading by an insoluble surfactant. We study a model problem in which several deposits of exogenous surfactant simultaneously spread on a bounded rectangular surface containing a pre-existing endogenous surfactant. We derive Eulerian and Lagrangian formulations of the equations governing the Marangoni-driven surface flow. Both descriptions show how confinement can induce drift and flow reversal during spreading. The Lagrangian formulation captures trajectories without the need to calculate surfactant concentrations; however, concentrations can still be inferred from the Jacobian of the map from initial to current particle position. We explore a link between thin-film surfactant dynamics and optimal transport theory to find the approximate equilibrium locations of material particles for any given initial condition by solving a Monge–Ampère equation. We find that as the endogenous surfactant concentration $\delta$ vanishes, the equilibrium shapes of deposits using the Monge–Ampère approximation approach polygons with corners curving in a self-similar manner over lengths scaling as $\delta ^{1/2}$ . We explore how Suminagashi patterns may be produced by using computationally efficient successive solutions of the Monge–Ampère equation.
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hal-04584295 , version 1 (23-05-2024)

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Richard Mcnair, Oliver E Jensen, Julien R Landel. Confinement-induced drift in Marangoni-driven transport of surfactant: a Lagrangian perspective. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024, 986, pp.A5. ⟨10.1017/jfm.2024.334⟩. ⟨hal-04584295⟩
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