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Hydrodynamic bubble coarsening in off-critical vapour-liquid phase separation

Patrick B. Warren

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0104314

Abstract

Late-stage coarsening in off-critical vapour-liquid phase separation is re-examined. In the limit of bubbles of vapour distributed throughout a continuous liquid phase, it is argued that coarsening proceeds via inertial hydrodynamic bubble collapse. This replaces the Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner mechanism seen in binary liquid mixtures. The arguments are strongly supported by simulations in two dimensions using a novel single-component soft sphere fluid.

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