Travelling waves near a critical point of a binary fluid mixture
Classical Physics
2011-10-26 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Chemical Physics
Abstract
Travelling waves of densities of binary fluid mixtures are investigated near a critical point. The free energy is considered in a non-local form taking account of the density gradients. The equations of motions are applied to a universal form of the free energy near critical conditions and can be integrated by a rescaling process where the binary mixture is similar to a single fluid. Nevertheless, density solution profiles obtained are not necessarily monotonic. As indicated in Appendix, the results might be extended to other topics like finance or biology.
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@article{arxiv.1110.5137,
title = {Travelling waves near a critical point of a binary fluid mixture},
author = {Henri Gouin and Augusto Muracchini and Tommaso Ruggeri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.5137},
year = {2011}
}
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23 pages; 4 figures