Ordering of the lamellar phase under a shear flow
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
The dynamics of a system quenched into a state with lamellar order and subject to an uniform shear flow is solved in the large-N limit. The description is based on the Brazovskii free-energy and the evolution follows a convection-diffusion equation. Lamellae order preferentially with the normal along the vorticity direction. Typical lengths grow as (with logarithmic corrections) in the flow direction and logarithmically in the shear direction. Dynamical scaling holds in the two-dimensional case while it is violated in D=3.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210159,
title = {Ordering of the lamellar phase under a shear flow},
author = {F. Corberi and G. Gonnella and A. Lamura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210159},
year = {2009}
}