Abstract: | The semitransparency of a material, which determines the penetration of external radiation into the inside layers, affects significantly the temperature profile in the body [1, 2]. Since the viscosity of a melt of viscous materials depends strongly on the temperature, deformation of the temperature profile close to the surface leads to considerable change of the rate of spread of the liquid film, which has a significant effect on the rate of distortion of the body. In the present paper, the problem of distortion is formulated taking into account the transfer of radiation inside the body. The dependence of the distortion parameters and the degree of blackness of the body on the fraction of radiation in the external thermal flux and the mean free path of the radiation inside the material is determined. A sufficient condition is also obtained for the presence of a temperature maximum inside the body in a more general case than in [3].Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, pp. 127–134, July–August, 1976.The author thanks G. A. Tirskii for a discussion of the posing of the problem. |