Abstract
The influence of hydrodynamic interactions on the coarsening rate 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 to , where is the time.
- Received 9 March 1979
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.20.595
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