Shear-induced quench of long-range correlations in a liquid mixture

Details Shear-induced quench of long-range correlations in a liquid mixture Shear-induced quench of long-range correlations in a liquid mixture

2003-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310482v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8pages, 2figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.69.031202

A static correlation function of concentration fluctuations in a (dilute) binary liquid mixture subjected to both a concentration gradient and uniform shear flow is investigated within the framework of fluctuating hydrodynamics. It is shown that a well-known $|\nabla c|^2/k^4$ long-range correlation at large wave numbers $k$ crosses over to a weaker divergent one for wave numbers satisfying $k<(\dot{\gamma}/D)^{1/2}$, while an asymptotic shear-controlled power-law dependence is confirmed at much smaller wave numbers given by $k\ll (\dot{\gamma}/\nu)^{1/2}$, where $c$, $\dot{\gamma}$, $D$ and $\nu$ are the mass concentration, the rate of the shear, the mass diffusivity and the kinematic viscosity of the mixture, respectively. The result will provide for the first time the possibility to observe the shear-induced suppression of a long-range correlation experimentally by using, for example, a low-angle light scattering technique.

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