PHASE SEPARATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLUID MIXTURES IN THE DISSIPATIVE REGIME
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Published:1996-06-10
Issue:13
Volume:10
Page:577-598
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ISSN:0217-9849
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Container-title:Modern Physics Letters B
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Mod. Phys. Lett. B
Author:
LEPTOUKH GREGORY1,
STRICKLAND BOWE1,
ROLAND CHRISTOPHER1
Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Abstract
The phase separation of two-dimensional fluid mixtures was investigated with Molecular Dynamics simulations. The behavior of both single-component and binary mixtures as a function of temperature, volume fraction and average fluid density was studied. Binary systems with a size mismatch were also considered. In all cases, the diffusive coalescence of clusters is the primary mechanism of growth. In binary systems, the shape transformations of merging droplets induce important long-range flows at high volume fractions.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics