Hydrodynamic bubble coarsening in off-critical vapour-liquid phase separation
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Late-stage coarsening in off-critical vapour-liquid phase separation is re-examined. In the limit of bubbles of vapour distributed throughout a continuous liquid phase, it is argued that coarsening proceeds via inertial hydrodynamic bubble collapse. This replaces the Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner mechanism seen in binary liquid mixtures. The arguments are strongly supported by simulations in two dimensions using a novel single-component soft sphere fluid.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0104314,
title = {Hydrodynamic bubble coarsening in off-critical vapour-liquid phase separation},
author = {Patrick B. Warren},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0104314},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures, revtex3.1