Coexistence and Phase Separation in Sheared Complex Fluids

Details Coexistence and Phase Separation in Sheared Complex Fluids Coexistence and Phase Separation in Sheared Complex Fluids

1997-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9705181v1

Physical Review E 56 (1997) 56-59

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages REVTEX, 5 figures using epsf macros. To appear in Physical Review E (Rapid Communications)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.56.R55

We demonstrate how to construct dynamic phase diagrams for complex fluids that undergo transitions under flow, in which the conserved composition variable and the broken-symmetry order parameter (nematic, smectic, crystalline, etc.) are coupled to shear rate. Our construction relies on a selection criterion, the existence of a steady interface connecting two stable homogeneous states. We use the (generalized) Doi model of lyotropic nematic liquid crystals as a model system, but the method can be easily applied to other systems, provided non-local effects are included.

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