The Marangoni number (Ma) is, as usually defined, the dimensionless number that compares the rate of transport due to Marangoni flows, with the rate of transport of diffusion. The Marangoni effect is flow of a liquid due to gradients in the surface tension of the liquid. Diffusion is of whatever is creating the gradient in the surface tension. Thus as the Marangoni number compares flow and diffusion timescales it is a type of Péclet number.
The Marangoni number is defined as:
A common example is surface tension gradients caused by temperature gradients.[1] Then the relevant diffusion process is that of thermal energy (heat). Another is surface gradients caused by variations in the concentration of surfactants, where the diffusion is now that of surfactant molecules.
The number is named after Italian scientist Carlo Marangoni, although its use dates from the 1950s[1][2] and it was neither discovered nor used by Carlo Marangoni.
The Marangoni number for a simple liquid of viscosity with a surface tension change over a distance parallel to the surface, can be estimated as follows. Note that we assume that is the only length scale in the problem, which in practice implies that the liquid be at least deep. The transport rate is usually estimated using the equations of Stokes flow, where the fluid velocity is obtained by equating the stress gradient to the viscous dissipation. A surface tension is a force per unit length, so the resulting stress must scale as , while the viscous stress scales as , for the speed of the Marangoni flow. Equating the two we have a flow speed . As Ma is a type of Péclet number, it is a velocity times a length, divided by a diffusion constant, , Here this is the diffusion constant of whatever is causing the surface tension difference. So,
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