| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 33, Number 8, March II 1996
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 599 - 604 | |
| Section | Classical areas of phenomenology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1996-00385-6 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Non-equilibrium phase transition in a binary mixture
Departamento de Física, Universidad de
Extremadura - E-06071 Badajoz, Spain
Received:
18
September
1995
Accepted:
22
January
1996
A non-equilibrium phase transition is identified
from an exact solution of the Boltzmann equation describing a binary mixture
under shear flow in the tracer limit (
):
there exists a critical value ac
(which depends on the mass ratio 
and the force constant ratios)
of the shear rate
such that
for 
(disordered phase), while
for 
(ordered phase), where
is the relative contribution of the tracer species to the total energy.
This phase transition is absent when is sufficiently large and/or the
strength of the interactions 2-2 is sufficiently larger than that of 1-2.
PACS: 47.50.+d – Non-Newtonian fluid flows / 05.20.Dd – Kinetic theory / 05.60.+w – Transport processes: theory
© EDP Sciences, 1996
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