Nucleation in the presence of shear

W.I. Goldburg and K.Y. Min

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1994, vol. 204, issue 1, 246-260

Abstract: Light scattering is used to investigate nucleation of a binary fluid mixture exposed to uniform steady-state shear S. The shear ruptures all droplets exceeding a certain size, R = Rburst. When S is relatively low so that Rburst exceeds the critical radius, Rc, the system achieves a steady state, with the droplet size distribution narrowly centered on Rc. Under strong shear, where Rburst is very close to Rc, all the existing droplets suddenly disappear. Also studied is the dependence of the droplet size R(t) and droplet density N(t) that follows the removal of the steady-state shear at t = 0. When the shear is strong, in the sense defined above, N(t) increases much more slowly than when it is weak. We know of no theory that explains this phenomenon.

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(94)90429-4

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