title: Ordering of the lamellar phase under a shear flow.
abstract: The dynamics of a system quenched into a state with lamellar order and subject to an uniform shear flow is solved in the large-N limit. The description is based on the Brazovskii free energy and the evolution follows a convection-diffusion equation. Lamellas order preferentially with the normal along the vorticity direction. Typical lengths grow as gamma t(5/4) (with logarithmic corrections) in the flow direction and logarithmically in the shear direction. Dynamical scaling holds in the two-dimensional case while it is violated in D=3.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Unità di Salerno and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi Salerno, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Corberi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gonnella
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lamura