Stratified layer formation in particle suspensions

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(85)90133-2zbMath0584.76119OpenAlexW2046777742MaRDI QIDQ1069831

Patrick S. Hagan, Donald S. Cohen

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(85)90133-2

zbMATH Keywords

phase separationRayleigh-Taylor instabilityspinodal decompositionsedimentationuphill diffusioncolloidal particlesconcentration profilediffusion against the concentration gradientInitially homogeneous suspensionslayers of nearly constant concentrationlinear gradient-energy termsharp boundaries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Diffusion and convection (76R99)

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