New Hydrodynamic Mechanism for Drop Coarsening
Fluid Dynamics
2016-01-27 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We discuss a new mechanism of drop coarsening due to coalescence only, which describes the late stages of phase separation in fluids. Depending on the volume fraction of the minority phase, we identify two different regimes of growth, where the drops are interconnected and their characteristic size grows linearly with time, and where the spherical drops are disconnected and the growth follows (time) 1/3. The transition between the two regimes is sharp and occurs at a well defined volume fraction of order 30%.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1601.07004,
title = {New Hydrodynamic Mechanism for Drop Coarsening},
author = {Vadim Nikolayev and Daniel Beysens and Patrick Guenoun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.07004},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 1996