Breakdown of Scale Invariance in the Coarsening of Phase-Separating Binary Fluids

1997/10/03 by Alexander J. Wagner, Julia M. Yeomans, J. M. Yeomans · 151 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Binary number #Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films #Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies #Materials science #Mathematics #Phase (matter) #Physics #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Quantum mechanics #Scale (ratio) #Scale invariance #Statistical physics #cond-mat.soft

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.80.1429

published in Physical Review Letters 80(7), 1429-1432 (American Physical Society) · 4 pages, Latex, 4 eps Figures included. (higher quality Figures can be obtained from [email protected])

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Abstract

We present evidence, based on lattice Boltzmann simulations, to show that the coarsening of the domains in phase-separating binary fluids is not a scale-invariant process. Moreover we emphasize that the pathway by which phase separation occurs depends strongly on the relation between diffusive and hydrodynamic time scales.

Citations

• Lattice Boltzmann simulations of liquid-gas and binary fluid systems

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