Late stages of spinodal decomposition in binary mixtures

Eric D. Siggia
Phys. Rev. A 20, 595 – Published 1 August 1979
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Abstract

The influence of hydrodynamic interactions on the coarsening rate r of a mist of droplets combining through diffusive coalescence is examined in detail. For a sufficiently rarified mist, the competing Lifshitz-Slyozov or evaporation-condensation mechanism is dominant, but the volume fraction of precipitate actually produced in most off-critical quench experiments probably favors direct coalescence. When the minority phase is continuous, as in a quench at the critical concentration, surface-tension effects lead to a crossover from rt13 to rt, where t is the time.

  • Received 9 March 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.20.595

©1979 American Physical Society

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Eric D. Siggia

  • Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Materials Science Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

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Vol. 20, Iss. 2 — August 1979

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