Capillary-to-bulk crossover of nonequilibrium fluctuations in the free diffusion of a near-critical binary liquid mixture

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4140-4145

  Cicuta, Pietro ^a,b   Vailati, Alberto ^a   Giglio, Marzio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIQUIDS; SURFACE TENSION;

CAPILLARY WAVES;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 0037485914     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004140     Document Type: Article

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