Spinodal decomposition in binary fluids: Effects of hydrodynamic interactions
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 44 (2), R817-R820
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.44.r817
Abstract
We propose a computationally efficient method to simulate ordering processes in binary fluids with a long-range hydrodynamic interaction, and the results of a computer simulation of spinodal decomposition in binary fluids in three dimensions using this method are presented. A linear growth law of characteristic length scale l(t), namely l(t)∼t, is observed in the very late scaling stage. The scaling function obtained is in good quantitative agreement with the experiments.Keywords
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