Convection-driven pattern formation in phase-separating binary fluids

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Pooley, C M ^a   Kuksenok, Olga ^a   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a PA 15260   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN MODELS; PARTIALLY MISCIBLE MIXTURES; PATTERN FORMATION; PHASE SEPARATING BINARY FLUIDS;

BINARY MIXTURES; FREE ENERGY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 41349085750     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.030501     Document Type: Article

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12. However, it is possible that there exists some stripe-coarsening process at a very high stripe number, which would reduce the large interfacial energy. In addition, Brownian noise, which was not included in these simulations may be important for stripe stability.