Thermal noise influences fluid flow in thin films during spinodal dewetting

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2007-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/0706.1895v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.114503

Experiments on dewetting thin polymer films confirm the theoretical prediction that thermal noise can strongly influence characteristic time-scales of fluid flow and cause coarsening of typical length scales. Comparing the experiments with deterministic simulations, we show that the Navier-Stokes equation has to be extended by a conserved bulk noise term to accomplish the observed spectrum of capillary waves. Due to thermal fluctuations the spectrum changes from an exponential to a power law decay for large wavevectors. Also the time evolution of the typical wavevector of unstable perturbations exhibits noise induced coarsening that is absent in deterministic hydrodynamic flow.

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