Coarsening dynamics of a nonconserved field advected by a uniform shear flow

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/33/101MaRDI QIDQ4520671zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alan J. Bray, Andrea Cavagna

Publication date 13 December 2000

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0001299

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic time dependencelength scalesnonconserved scalar fieldOhta-Jasnow-Kawasaki approximationordering kineticsshear flowtwisted nematic liquid crystals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: We consider the ordering kinetics of a nonconserved scalar field advected by a uniform shear flow. Using the Ohta-Jasnow-Kawasaki approximation, modified to allow for shear-induced anisotropy, we calculate the asymptotic time dependence of the characteristic length scales, L_parallel and L_perp, that describe the growth of order parallel and perpendicular to the mean domain orientation. In space dimension d=3 we find, up to constants, L_parallel = gamma t^{3/2}, L_perp = t^{1/2}, where gamma is the shear rate, while for d = 2 we find L_parallel = gamma^{1/2} t (ln t)^{1/4}, L_perp = gamma^{-1/2}(ln t)^{-1/4} . Our predictions for d=2 can be tested by experiments on twisted nematic liquid crystals.

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