Thursday, December 27, 2012

1212.5914 (Shaista Ahmad et al.)

Aging and Crossovers in Phase-Separating Fluid Mixtures    [PDF]

Shaista Ahmad, Federico Corberi, Subir K. Das, Eugenio Lippiello, Sanjay Puri, Marco Zannetti
We use state-of-the-art molecular dynamics simulations to study hydrodynamic effects on aging during kinetics of phase separation in a fluid mixture. The domain growth law shows a crossover from a diffusive regime to a viscous hydrodynamic regime. There is a corresponding crossover in the autocorrelation function from a power-law behavior to an exponential decay. While the former is consistent with theories for diffusive domain growth, the latter results as a consequence of faster advective transport in fluids for which an analytical justification has been provided.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5914

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