Particle tracking for polydisperse sedimenting droplets in phase separation

Details Particle tracking for polydisperse sedimenting droplets in phase separation Particle tracking for polydisperse sedimenting droplets in phase separation

2011-07-06

arxiv.org/abs/1107.1194v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

13 pages; 16 figures including 3 photographs and 3 false-color plots

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When a binary fluid demixes under a slow temperature ramp, nucleation, coarsening and sedimentation of droplets lead to an oscillatory evolution of the phase separating system. The advection of the sedimenting droplets is found to be chaotic. The flow is driven by density differences between the two phases. Here, we show how image processing can be combined with particle tracking to resolve droplet size and velocity simultaneously. Droplets are used as tracer particles, and the sedimentation velocity is determined. Taking these effects into account, droplets with radii in the range of 4 -- 40 micrometers are detected and tracked. Based on this data we resolve the oscillations in the droplet size distribution which are coupled to the convective flow.

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