Phase separation in binary fluid mixtures with continuously ramped temperature

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2002.1165MaRDI QIDQ3043689zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. E. Cates, Jürgen Vollmer, Alexander J. Wagner, Daniel Vollmer

Publication date 6 August 2004

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0304085

zbMATH Keywords

diffusive instabilityoscillating heat capacitysupersaturation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99)

Abstract: We consider the demixing of a binary fluid mixture, under gravity, which is steadily driven into a two phase region by slowly ramping the temperature. We assume, as a first approximation, that the system remains spatially isothermal, and examine the interplay of two competing nonlinearities. One of these arises because the supersaturation is greatest far from the meniscus, creating inversion of the density which can lead to fluid motion; although isothermal, this is somewhat like the Benard problem (a single-phase fluid heated from below). The other is the intrinsic diffusive instability which results either in nucleation or in spinodal decomposition at large supersaturations. Experimental results on a simple binary mixture show interesting oscillations in heat capacity and optical properties for a wide range of ramp parameters. We argue that these oscillations arise under conditions where both nonlinearities are important.

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