Issue |
EPL
Volume 96, Number 2, October 2011
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Article Number | 28004 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/28004 | |
Published online | 26 September 2011 |
Coagulation cascade of surface plumes in viscoelastic rimming flow
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot 76100, Israel
a
gabriel.seiden@weizmann.ac.il
Received:
3
July
2011
Accepted:
29
August
2011
We report the experimental observation of Kolmogorov-type steady coagulation cascade in an elastically driven instability occurring at the liquid front of a dilute polymer solution partially filling a rotating horizontal drum. Surface plumes are found to dominate the flow in the vicinity of the front at low Reynolds numbers. Plume merging leads to an area cascade with a time-independent mass flux. The coalescence process results in a power-law decay of the stationary plume area distribution, with an exponent which agrees with that of the Smoluchowski coagulation model.
PACS: 89.75.Da – Systems obeying scaling laws / 89.75.Fb – Structures and organization in complex systems
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