Spinodal decomposition in the inverse cascade of two-dimensional, binary-fluid turbulence etc15 Tracking Number 357Presentation: Session: Multiphase and non-Newtonian flows 4 Room: Room D Session start: 10:30 Fri 28 Aug 2015 Prasad Perlekar perlekar@tifrh.res.in Affifliation: TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, 21 Brundavan Colony, Narsingi, Hyderabad 500075, India Nairita Pal nairitap2009@gmail.com Affifliation: Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India Rahul Pandit rahul@physics.iisc.ernet.in Affifliation: Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India Topics: - Transport and mixing, - Turbulence in multiphase and non-Newtonian flows Abstract: We study spinodal decomposition in the inverse-cascade regime of two dimensional turbulence in symmetric, binary fluid mixtures. We show that turbulence leads to break up of domains whose size, in the inverse cascade regime, is proportional to the Hinze scale. Even more strikingly, we show that the inverse cascade of energy is blocked by the formation of domains. |