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We observed in numerical simulations that the interaction of striped-pattern-forming instability and a neutrally stable zero mode induces patterns of domains of upflow hexagons coexisting with domains of downflow hexagons. They appear only when hydrodynamic flow is present.
Computer simulations of domain coarsening of Rayleigh-Bénard convective patterns under horizontal shear flow are carried out. The model calculations reported here explicitly include the hydrodynamic interaction of the order parameter field and provide a description of the spiral-defect chaos which competes with the roll pattern. We observe shear banding at moderate strain rates.
The hydrodynamic coarsening of microphase separation in two-dimensional diblock copolymers is studied using numerical simulations. Results for symmetric and asymmetric block copolymers are compared. In contrast to the formation of the hexagonal phase where hydrodynamic flow appears not to be effective in enhancing domain coarsening, the late-time evolution of the lamellar phase proceeds faster, thus leading to a different power-law scaling with the addition of coupling of the velocity field to the order parameter.
The Swift-Hohenberg model of the cellular pattern formation is exploited with a proto renormalization-group (RG) scheme. The method dispenses with the explicit perturbation solutions which are required in the standard RG approach. The RG equations obtained are the well-known reductive perturbation results such as a rotationally covariant amplitude equation and the nonlinear phase equations.
We have studied domain growth of symmetric diblock copolymers undergoing microphase separation at low temperatures. We introduce a phenomenological nonlinear diffusion model with order-parameter-dependent mobility. Performing two-dimensional simulations, we find that the time-dependent scattering function exhibits dynamical scaling with a logarithmic growth law in the strong segregation limit where surface diffusion is the relevant mechanism for coarsening.
It has been recognized that singular perturbation and reductive perturbation can be unified from the renormalization group (RG) theoretical point of view. However, the recognition has been only formal in the sense that it has not given us any new insight nor provided any new technical advantage over the usual RG approach. With our approach, the proto RG method proposed here, we can clearly show that system reduction is the key to singular perturbation methods. The approach also makes the calculation of singular perturbation results more transparent than the conventional RG approach. Consequently, for example, a consistent and easy RG derivation of the rotational covariant Newell-Whitehead-Segel equation is possible.
The structure factor of weakly charged polymer gels under external mechanical strain is calculated considering both thermal and frozen concentration fluctuations as well as the screening of ionic interactions. The butterfly patterns are discussed based on our result.
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