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arXiv 2006.01368cond-mat.soft
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自由悬浮近晶薄膜中岛的合并

Coalescence of Islands in Freely-Suspended Smectic Films

Z. H. Nguyen, K. Harth, A. M. Goldfain, C. S. Park, J. E. Maclennan, M. A. Glaser, N. A. Clark

摘要:

以自由悬浮在空气中的几层分子厚的近晶相液晶薄膜为模型系统,研究了二维流体的聚并。高速视频显微镜用于观察岛的聚结,这是膜的较厚的盘形区域,在由与沿岛边界的边缘位错相关的线张力驱动的过程中,并且受到液晶和周围空气中的粘性耗散的限制。连接合并岛屿的桥梁的早期增长揭示了比Hopper的经典流体动力学模型预测的两个无限长的流体圆柱体在真空中的聚结慢得多的动力学,这种差异被认为是由于背景膜和空气中的显着耗散而不包括在Hopper的理论中。在晚些时候,椭圆形的合并岛松弛指数的圆形形状,在速率,定量描述的模型最初开发的流体域在朗缪尔薄膜的演变。

英文摘要:

Smectic liquid crystal films a few molecular layers thick that are freely suspended in air are used as a model system to study the coalescence of fluids in two dimensions. High-speed video microscopy is used to observe the coalescence of islands, which are thicker, disk-shaped regions of the film, in a process driven by the line tension associated with edge dislocations along the island boundaries and limited by viscous dissipation in the liquid crystal and in the surrounding air. The early time growth of the bridge connecting the merging islands reveals much slower dynamics than predicted by Hopper's classical hydrodynamic model of coalescence of two infinitely long, fluid cylinders in vacuum, a discrepancy proposed to be due to significant dissipation in the background film and in the air that is not included in Hopper's theory. At late times, the elliptical merged island relaxes exponentially to a circular shape, at rates that are described quantitatively by a model originally developed for the evolution of fluid domains in Langmuir films.

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