Three-dimensional lattice-Boltzmann simulations of critical spinodal decomposition in binary immiscible fluids

Details Three-dimensional lattice-Boltzmann simulations of critical spinodal decomposition in binary immiscible fluids Three-dimensional lattice-Boltzmann simulations of critical spinodal decomposition in binary immiscible fluids

2003-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0301046v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

45 pages, 18 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.67.046304

We use a modified Shan-Chen, noiseless lattice-BGK model for binary immiscible, incompressible, athermal fluids in three dimensions to simulate the coarsening of domains following a deep quench below the spinodal point from a symmetric and homogeneous mixture into a two-phase configuration. We find the average domain size growing with time as $t^\gamma$, where $\gamma$ increases in the range $0.545 < \gamma < 0.717$, consistent with a crossover between diffusive $t^{1/3}$ and hydrodynamic viscous, $t^{1.0}$, behaviour. We find good collapse onto a single scaling function, yet the domain growth exponents differ from others' works' for similar values of the unique characteristic length and time that can be constructed out of the fluid's parameters. This rebuts claims of universality for the dynamical scaling hypothesis. At early times, we also find a crossover from $q^2$ to $q^4$ in the scaled structure function, which disappears when the dynamical scaling reasonably improves at later times. This excludes noise as the cause for a $q^2$ behaviour, as proposed by others. We also observe exponential temporal growth of the structure function during the initial stages of the dynamics and for wavenumbers less than a threshold value.

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