Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3856 - 3859 (1999)Dynamics of Phase Separation under Shear: A Soluble Model |
N. P. Rapapa and A. J. Bray
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
See Also: Erratum
Received 27 April 1999
The dynamics of phase separation for a binary fluid subjected to a uniform shear are solved exactly for a model in which the order parameter is generalized to an n-component vector and the large- n limit is taken. Characteristic length scales in directions parallel and perpendicular to the flow increase as (t5/lnt)1/4 and (t/lnt)1/4, respectively. The structure factor in the shear-flow plane exhibits two parallel ridges as observed in experiment.
©1999 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v83/p3856
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3856
PACS: 64.60.Cn, 05.70.Ln, 64.75.+g, 82.20.Mj
See Also
Erratum: N. P. Rapapa and A. J. Bray, Erratum: Dynamics of Phase Separation Under Shear: A Soluble Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3856 (1999)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 791 (2000)
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