Hydrodynamics and growth laws in lamellar ordering

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Published 2 July 2007 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation M. Cencini et al 2007 EPL 79 26004 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/79/26004

0295-5075/79/2/26004

Abstract

Ordering of lamellar phases described by a free-energy functional with short-range interactions is numerically investigated in two dimensions by means of a pseudo-spectral method. The ordering process is found to depend on the fluid viscosity: it is arrested for large viscosity values and proceeds as a power law for small ones, with a crossover regime for intermediate values. At varying the free energy parameters, strong evidence has been found that the ordering law, unlike binary mixtures, is not unique.

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10.1209/0295-5075/79/26004