Gravity induced formation of concentration gradients in supersaturated binary solutions

Alexander F. Izmailov and Allan S. Myerson

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1996, vol. 224, issue 3, 503-532

Abstract: Experimental and theoretical studies of the formation of solute concentration gradient in supersaturated binary solutions in a gravitational field were carried out. The formation of solute concentration gradient was associated with the gravity induced redistribution of subcritical solute clusters. The birth-death process of the new solute-rich phase domains (subcritical solute clusters) was described in terms of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model developed for metastable state relaxation in binary (solute + solvent) non-critical solutions in the presence of a gravitational field. A new mathematical Ansatz was developed for solution of the model equations. This Ansatz has allowed to approach for the first time the following important problems:1.(A) Microstructure of solute distribution inside of the subcritical solute clusters. The analytical results obtained demonstrate that solute inside of the subcritical solute clusters is heterogeneously distributed with a spatially periodic structure.2.(B) Macrostructure of the solute subcritical clusters distribution in a gravitational field. The subcritical solute clusters are found to be distributed heterogeneously in a gravitational field.

Keywords: Metastable state relaxation; Gravitational field; Non-critical binary solution; Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau formalism; Subcritical solute cluster (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(94)00299-1

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