Phase separation of viscous ternary liquid mixtures

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 80, Issue , 2012, Pages 270-278

  Park, Jang Min ^a   Mauri, Roberto ^b   Anderson, Patrick D ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard model; Diffuse interface model; Finite element method; Phase separation; Structure development; Ternary liquid mixture

Indexed keywords

BODY FORCES; CAHN-HILLIARD MODEL; CONVECTION AND DIFFUSION; DE-MIXING; DIFFUSE INTERFACE MODELS; DIFFUSION-DRIVEN; DOMAIN SIZE; STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT; TERNARY LIQUID MIXTURES; TERNARY MIXTURES; THEORETICAL MODELS; THREE PHASIS; UNSTABLE STATE; VISCOUS POLYMERS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MIXTURES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER MELTS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84863703757     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.06.017     Document Type: Article

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