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We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which models phase separation in binary fluids, on the two-dimen\-sional torus in the presence of advection by a given background shear flow, satisfying certain conditions and of sufficiently large…

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We review understanding of kinetics of fluid phase separation in various space dimensions. Morphological differences, percolating or disconnected, based on overall composition in a binary liquid or density in a vapor-liquid system, have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-05 Subir K. Das , Sutapa Roy , Jiarul Midya

We numerically investigate viscoelastic phase separation in polymer solutions under shear using a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model. The gross variables in our model are the polymer volume fraction and a conformation tensor. The latter…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Tatsuhiro Imaeda , Akira Furukawa , Akira Onuki

We study the fully nonlinear, nonlocal dynamics of two-dimensional multicomponent vesicles in a shear flow with matched viscosity of the inner and outer fluids. Using a nonstiff, pseudo-spectral boundary integral method, we investigate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-01 Kai Liu , Gary R. Marple , Shuwang Li , Shravan Veerapaneni , John Lowengrub

The stability of a long cylindrical domain in a phase-separating binary fluid in an external shear flow is investigated by linear stability analysis. Using the coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Stokes equations, the stability eigenvalues are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Amalie Frischknecht

We investigate colloidal suspensions under shear flow through numerical experiments. By measuring the time-correlation function of a bond-orientational order parameter, we find a divergent time scale near a transition point from a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-17 Masamichi J. Miyama , Shin-ichi Sasa

The dynamics of a binary system with non conserved order parameter under a plain shear flow with rate $\gamma $ is solved analytically in the large-N limit. A phase transition is observed at a critical temperature $T_c(\gamma)$. After a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Federico Corberi , Giuseppe Gonnella , Eugenio Lippiello , Marco Zannetti

We present a numerical simulation study of a simple monatomic Lennard-Jones liquid under shear flow, as a function of both temperature and shear rate. By investigating different observables we find that i) It exists a line in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Angelani , G. Ruocco , F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia , F. Zamponi

We study theoretically the viscoelastic properties of sheared binary fluids that have strong dynamical asymmetry between the two components. The dynamical asymmetry arises due to asymmetry between the viscoelastic stresses, particularly the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Vinay Dwivedi , Rajeev Ahluwalia , Turab Lookman , Avadh Saxena

We present a simple model for the development of shear layers between parallel flows in confining channels. Such flows are important across a wide range of topics from diffusers, nozzles and ducts to urban air flow and geophysical fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-09 GP Benham , AA Castrejon-Pita , IJ Hewitt , CP Please , RW Style , P Bird

Dense mixture of granules and liquid often shows a sever shear thickening and is called a dilatant fluid. We construct a fluid dynamics model for the dilatant fluid by introducing a phenomenological state variable for a local state of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Hiizu Nakanishi , Shin-ichiro Nagahiro , Namiko Mitarai

The motion of a deformable active particle in linear shear flow is explored theoretically. Based on symmetry considerations, in two spatial dimensions, we propose coupled nonlinear dynamical equations for the particle position, velocity,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Mitsusuke Tarama , Andreas M. Menzel , Borge ten Hagen , Raphael Wittkowski , Takao Ohta , Hartmut Löwen

Phase separation of binary fluids quenched by contact with cold external walls is considered. Navier-Stokes, convection-diffusion, and energy equations are solved by lattice Boltzmann method coupled with finite-difference schemes. At high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Gonnella , A. Lamura , A. Piscitelli , A. Tiribocchi

The possible ``phase diagrams'' for shear-induced phase transitions between two phases are collected. We consider shear-thickening and shear-thinning fluids, under conditions of both common strain rate and common stress in the two phases,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter D. Olmsted

The continuum theory of partially fluidized shear granular flows is tested and calibrated using two dimensional soft particle molecular dynamics simulations. The theory is based on the relaxational dynamics of the order parameter that…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Volfson , L. S. Tsimring , I. S. Aranson

We consider the ordering kinetics of a nonconserved scalar field advected by a uniform shear flow. Using the Ohta-Jasnow-Kawasaki approximation, modified to allow for shear-induced anisotropy, we calculate the asymptotic time dependence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alan J. Bray , Andrea Cavagna

We demonstrate how to construct dynamic phase diagrams for complex fluids that undergo transitions under flow, in which the conserved composition variable and the broken-symmetry order parameter (nematic, smectic, crystalline, etc.) are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Peter D. Olmsted , C. -Y. D. Lu

A three-dimensional, steady, laminar shear-layer flow spatially developing under a boundary-layer approximation with mixing, chemical reaction, and imposed normal strain is analyzed. The imposed strain creates a counterflow that stretches…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-14 Jonathan L. Palafoutas , William A. Sirignano

We analyse the flow curves of a two-dimensional assembly of granular particles which are interacting via frictional contact forces. For packing fractions slightly below jamming, the fluid undergoes a large scale instability, implying a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-22 Shibu Saw , Mathias Grob , Annette Zippelius , Claus Heussinger

We perform computer simulations of a Cahn-Hilliard model of phase separation which has dynamical asymmetry between the two coexisting phases. The dynamical asymmetry is incorporated by considering a mobility function which is order…

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