Lattice-Gas Simulations of Minority-Phase Domain Growth in Binary Immiscible and Ternary Amphiphilic Fluid

Details Lattice-Gas Simulations of Minority-Phase Domain Growth in Binary Immiscible and Ternary Amphiphilic Fluid Lattice-Gas Simulations of Minority-Phase Domain Growth in Binary Immiscible and Ternary Amphiphilic Fluid

1997-05-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9705248v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

22 pages, 13 figures, submitted to PR E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.56.6877

We investigate the growth kinetics of binary immiscible fluids and emulsions in two dimensions using a hydrodynamic lattice-gas model. We perform off-critical quenches in the binary fluid case and find that the domain size within the minority phase grows algebraically with time in accordance with theoretical predictions. In the late time regime we find a growth exponent n = 0.45 over a wide range of concentrations, in good agreement with other simluations. In the early time regime we find no universal growth exponent but a strong dependence on the concentration of the minority phase. In the ternary amphiphilic fluid case the kinetics of self assembly of the droplet phase are studied for the first time. At low surfactant concentrations, we find that, after an early algebraic growth, a nucleation regime dominates the late-time kinetics, which is enhanced by an increasing concentration of surfactant. With a further increase in the concentration of surfactant, we see a crossover to logarithmically slow growth, and finally saturation of the oil droplets, which we fit phenomenologically to a stretched exponential function. Finally, the transition between the droplet and the sponge phase is studied.

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