Surface-directed spinodal decomposition in binary fluid mixtures.
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 numerical results obtained using a mesoscopic level simulation technique for the three-dimensional problem.
Bastea
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Department of Mathematics and Physics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA. bastea2@llnl.gov
Puri
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Lebowitz
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