Structure and rheology of binary mixtures in shear flow

Details Structure and rheology of binary mixtures in shear flow Structure and rheology of binary mixtures in shear flow

2000-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0001342v1

Phys. Rev. E 61, 6621 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

11 pages and 13 figures in .gif format (best quality figures available at lamura@ba.infn.it)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.61.6621

Results are presented for the phase separation process of a binary mixture subject to an uniform shear flow quenched from a disordered to a homogeneous ordered phase. The kinetics of the process is described in the context of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation with an external velocity term. The large-N approximation is used to study the evolution of the model in the presence of a stationary flow and in the case of an oscillating shear. For stationary flow we show that the structure factor obeys a generalized dynamical scaling. The domains grow with different typical lengthscales $R_x$ and $R_\perp$ respectively in the flow direction and perpendicularly to it. In the scaling regime $R_\perp \sim t^{\alpha_\perp}$ and $R_x \sim \gamma t^{\alpha_x}$ (with logarithmic corrections), $\gamma $ being the shear rate, with $\alpha_x=5/4$ and $\alpha_\perp =1/4$. The excess viscosity $\Delta \eta$ after reaching a maximum relaxes to zero as $\gamma ^{-2}t^{-3/2}$. $\Delta \eta$ and other observables exhibit log-time periodic oscillations which can be interpreted as due to a growth mechanism where stretching and break-up of domains cyclically occur. In the case of an oscillating shear a cross-over phenomenon is observed: Initially the evolution is characterized by the same growth exponents as for a stationary flow. For longer times the phase separating structure cannot align with the oscillating drift and a different regime is entered with an isotropic growth and the same exponents of the case without shear.

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