Dynamics of phase separation of sheared inertialess binary mixtures

• Published in: Physics of fluids (1994) Vol. 32; no. 2
• Main Authors: Bertei, Antonio, Mauri, Roberto
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melville American Institute of Physics 01.02.2020
• Subjects: Binary mixtures; Coalescing; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer simulation; Convective flow; Cross flow; Droplets; Fluid dynamics; Fluid flow; Hydrodynamics; Morphology; Phase diagrams; Phase separation; Physics; Rapid quenching (metallurgy); Shear flow; Wildlife conservation

When a viscous binary mixture subject to an applied shear flow is rapidly quenched into the unstable region of its phase diagram, the resulting phase separation is influenced by two competing effects. On one hand, nuclei of the minority phase tend to grow with a constant growth rate, while, on the o...