Power laws and crossovers in off-critical surface-directed spinodal decomposition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1797-1800

  Puri, Sanjay ^a,b   Binder, Kurt ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITION; DECOMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

CROSSOVER; OFF CRITICAL SURFACE DIRECTED SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION; POWER LAWS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 4243570771     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1797     Document Type: Article

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