Kinetics of Spinodal Phase Separation in Unstable Thin Liquid Films

Details Kinetics of Spinodal Phase Separation in Unstable Thin Liquid Films Kinetics of Spinodal Phase Separation in Unstable Thin Liquid Films

2010-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/1001.2611v1

Phys. Rev. E 82, 011601 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.82.011601

We study universality in the kinetics of spinodal phase separation in unstable thin liquid films, via simulations of the thin film equation. It is shown that in addition to morphology and free energy,the number density of local maxima in the film profile can also be used to identify the early, intermediate and late stages of spinodal phase separation. A universal curve between the number density of local maxima and rescaled time describes the kinetics of early stage in d = 2, 3. The Lifshitz-Slyozov exponent of -1/3 describes the kinetics of the late stage in d = 2 even in the absence of coexisting equilibrium phases.

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