Thermal and hydrodynamic effects in the ordering of lamellar fluids

Details Thermal and hydrodynamic effects in the ordering of lamellar fluids Thermal and hydrodynamic effects in the ordering of lamellar fluids

2011-02-15

arxiv.org/abs/1102.3094v1

Phil. Trans of Royal Soc. Ser A vol.369, 2592-2599 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Phil. Trans. of Royal Soc, Ser A

Scientific paper

10.1098/rsta.2011.0020

Phase separation in a complex fluid with lamellar order has been studied in the case of cold thermal fronts propagating diffusively from external walls. The velocity hydrodynamic modes are taken into account by coupling the convection-diffusion equation for the order parameter to a generalised Navier-Stokes equation. The dynamical equations are simulated by implementing a hybrid method based on a lattice Boltzmann algorithm coupled to finite difference schemes. Simulations show that the ordering process occurs with morphologies depending on the speed of the thermal fronts or, equivalently, on the value of the thermal conductivity {\xi}. At large value of {\xi}, as in instantaneous quenching, the system is frozen in entangled configurations at high viscosity while consists of grains with well ordered lamellae at low viscosity. By decreasing the value of {\xi}, a regime with very ordered lamellae parallel to the thermal fronts is found. At very low values of {\xi} the preferred orientation is perpendicular to the walls in d = 2, while perpendicular order is lost moving far from the walls in d = 3.

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