Several materials science research groups are currently investigating liquid encapsulation of electronic melts. Pertinent fluid dynamics of immiscible double and triple liquid layers is the objective of this presentation. First results on multilayer convective flow, in preparation for a spaceflight experiment aboard IML-2, are discussed. Convective flow in liquid layers with one or two horizontal interfaces heated from the side is one of the systems investigated. The second system comprises two horizontally layered immiscible liquids heated from below and cooled from above. In this system convection results from the classical Benard instability.
Koster, J.N., Prakash, A., Fujita, D., Doi, T., Benard and Marangoni Convection in Immiscible Liquid Layers, ASME HTD Natural Convection in Enclosures, ASME, New York, NY, Vol. 198, pp. 99-104, 1992.