Role of inertia in the late stage of the phase separation of a fluid

Hiroshi Furukawa

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1994, vol. 204, issue 1, 237-245

Abstract: We examined the Reynolds number Re in the late stage of the phase separation of a fluid mixture. This quantity increases as a function of time t as Re ∝t13 in the long time limit. The corresponding growth law of length scale is L(t) ∝ t23 (curvature driven and inertia controlled). The numerical simulation agrees with these predictions. For simple liquids this growth law is applied even to a remarkably small length scale. The observation of this growth law is within the resolution of available scattering experiments.

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(94)90428-6

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