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Phase-field model for a weakly compressible soft layered material: morphological transitions on smectic-isotropic interfaces
Eduardo Vitral, Perry H. Leo, Jorge Viñals
A coupled phase-field and hydrodynamic model is introduced to describe a two-phase, weakly compressible smectic (layered phase) in contact with an isotropic fluid of different dens…
Model of the dynamics of an interface between a smectic phase and an isotropic phase of different density
Eduardo Vitral, Perry H. Leo, Jorge Viñals
Soft modulated phases have been shown to undergo complex morphological transitions, in which layer remodeling induced by mean and Gaussian curvatures plays a major role. This is th…
Spiral defect chaos in Rayleigh-Bénard convection: Asymptotic and numerical studies of azimuthal flows induced by rotating spirals
Eduardo Vitral, Saikat Mukherjee, Perry H. Leo +3
Rotating spiral patterns in Rayleigh-Bénard convection are known to induce azimuthal flows, which raises the question of how different neighboring spirals interact with each other…
Role of Gaussian curvature on local equilibrium and dynamics of smectic-isotropic interfaces
Eduardo Vitral, Perry H. Leo, Jorge Viñals
Recent research on interfacial instabilities of smectic films has shown unexpected morphologies that are not fully explained by classical local equilibrium thermodynamics. Annealin…