Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 36, Number 2, October II 1996
|
|
---|---|---|
Page(s) | 123 - 128 | |
Section | Condensed matter: structure, thermal and mechanical properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1996-00197-2 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Convection patterns on the liquid-liquid interface of a phase-separated binary mixture
1
Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Nankang Taipei,
Taiwan 11529, ROC
2
Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei,
Taiwan 10764, ROC
Received:
22
May
1996
Accepted:
29
August
1996
Propagating surface deformation in the form of a ring is observed on the liquid-liquid interface of a phase-separated binary mixture in a cylindrical cell after a temperature quench close to the critical point. It is found that the ring is produced by the convection currents induced by the temperature quench and it expands with a nearly constant velocity of the order of 10 mm/s. A peculiar feature of this characteristic velocity is that it is relatively insensitive to experimental parameters and probably governed by the bulk properties of the system alone.
PACS: 68.10.-m – Fluid surfaces and fluid-fluid interfaces / 05.70.Jk – Critical point phenomena / 47.27.Te – Convection and heat transfer
© EDP Sciences, 1996
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.