Effect of shear on droplets in a binary mixture
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-30 v1 comp-gas
Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
Abstract
In this article we use a lattice-Boltzmann simulation to examine the effects of shear flow on a equilibrium droplet in a phase separated binary mixture. We find that large drops break up as the shear is increased but small drops dissolve. We also show how the tip-streaming, observed for deformed drops, leads to a state of dynamic equilibrium.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9708130,
title = {Effect of shear on droplets in a binary mixture},
author = {Alexander J. Wagner and J. M. Yeomans},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9708130},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, LaTex, to appear in International Journal of Physics C