We observed that diffuse interfaces sharpen rather than broaden in completely miscible ideal binary systems. This is shown in situ during heat treatments at gradually increasing temperatures by scattering of synchrotron radiation in coherent Mo/V multilayers containing initially diffuse interfaces. This effect provides a useful tool for the improvement of interfaces and offers a way to fabricat...

Evidence of the existence of a transient surface tension between two miscible fluid phases is given. This is done by making use of a density matched free of gravity perturbations, binary liquid of isobutyric acid and water, which presents a miscibility gap and is studied by light scattering. The experiment is performed very near the critical point of the binary liquid, where the diffusion of ph...

When falling in a lighter miscible solvent, a drop of liquid deforms to a torus which then breaks up into several fragments or just disappears by diffusion. By using liquids of different compositions we show the universal behaviour of the phenomenon, and its dependence on two nondimensional numbers, the fragmentation number F , and the Schmidt number S. While F marks the transition from diffusi...

In this paper, we shall dérive a new model for the miscible displacement of one incompressible fluid by another in porous media using simple physical conservation laws For a dilute mixture m which the density can be approximated by a constant, this new model reduces to the standard one used for the last decade The model is governed by a nonlinear system consisting of pressure and concentration ...

This research project focuses on the dynamics of interfacial regions between miscible fluids. While much attention has focused on immiscible interfaces in the past, miscible interfaces have been explored to a much lesser degree, so that there are many open questions regarding their dynamics at this time. Among the more pressing issues is the role that nonconventional stresses can play in such i...

In viscous withdrawal, a converging flow imposed in an upper layer of viscous liquid entrains liquid from a lower, stably stratified layer. Using the idea that a thin tendril is entrained by a local straining flow, we propose a scaling law for the volume flux of liquid entrained from miscible liquid layers. A long-wavelength model including only local information about the withdrawal flow is de...

Stemming from MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical System) developments, designs and fabrication technology, packaged microfluidic chips – used first for biological and chemical analysis (μTAS, Micro Total Analysis Systems) – were modified to perform chemical syntheses (1). In addition, chip devices for the mixing of miscible or immiscible fluids offered a novel means for the processing of this unit op...

Lensless Fourier transform digital holographic technique is applied for measurement of diffusion in miscible transparent liquid solutions. The phase information at two time instances and a synthetic plane wavefront is used to determine the diffusion co-efficient. The experiment was conducted to measure the diffusion coefficient of aqueous solution of NaCl in water.