Nonequilibrium orientational patterns in two-component Langmuir monolayers
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2009-11-10 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Abstract
A model of a phase-separating two-component Langmuir monolayer in the presence of a photo-induced reaction interconvering two components is formulated. An interplay between phase separation, orientational ordering and treaction is found to lead to a variety of nonequilibrium self-organized patterns, both stationary and traveling. Examples of the patterns, observed in numerical simulations, include flowing droplets, traveling stripes, wave sources and vortex defects.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0311015,
title = {Nonequilibrium orientational patterns in two-component Langmuir monolayers},
author = {Ramon Reigada and Alexander S. Mikhailov and Francesc Sagues},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0311015},
year = {2009}
}
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