Coarsening of precipitation patterns in a moving reaction-diffusion front

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

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Volford, A ^a   Lagzi, I ^b,c   Molnar F ^b   Racz Z ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; OUTER ELECTROLYTE; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; RE-DISSOLUTION; REACTION FRONT; REACTION-DIFFUSION FRONTS; SELF-SIMILAR; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 71549118531     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.055102     Document Type: Article

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