Surface-Directed Spinodal Decomposition in Binary Fluid Mixtures

Abstract

We consider the phase separation of binary fluids in contact with a surface which is preferentially wetted by one of the components of the mixture. We review the results available for this problem and present new numerical results obtained using a mesoscopic-level simulation technique for the 3-dimensional problem.

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• Theory of Phase Ordering Kinetics
• Spinodal Decomposition in Binary Gases
• Binary Fluids with Long Range Segregating Interaction I: Derivation of Kinetic and Hydrodynamic Equations

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