Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1996-03-15
Physics
Condensed Matter
28 pages, latex, embedded .eps figures, one figure is in colour, all in one uuencoded gzip compressed tar file, submitted to P
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.55.708
We investigate the dynamical behavior of both binary fluid and ternary microemulsion systems in two dimensions using a recently introduced hydrodynamic lattice-gas model of microemulsions. We find that the presence of amphiphile in our simulations reduces the usual oil-water interfacial tension in accord with experiment and consequently affects the non-equilibrium growth of oil and water domains. As the density of surfactant is increased we observe a crossover from the usual two-dimensional binary fluid scaling laws to a growth that is {\it slow}, and we find that this slow growth can be characterized by a logarithmic time scale. With sufficient surfactant in the system we observe that the domains cease to grow beyond a certain point and we find that this final characteristic domain size is inversely proportional to the interfacial surfactant concentration in the system.
Boghosian Bruce M.
Coveney Peter V.
Emerton Andrew N.
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