| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L91412/01 |
| Title: |
COMPUTER SIMULATION STUDIES OF PHASE TRANSITIONS AND CRITICAL PHENOMENA IN BINARY FLUID MIXTURES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Wilding, Professor N |
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| Department: |
Sch of Physics and Astronomy |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
25 February 1998 |
Ends: |
24 February 2000 |
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19,564
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Complex fluids & soft solids |
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We propose a programme of computer simulation studies into the phase coexistence behaviour and critical phenomena of binary fluid mixtures. Highly efficient simulation techniques will be used to probe the manner in which the phase behaviour of model binary fluids depends on their microscopic interactions. The various types of critical points exhibited by the mixtures will be studied to determine their universality classes and to elucidate the manner in which one type of critical behaviour crosses over into another. The near-critical interfacial wetting behaviour of binary fluids will then be studied with a view to observing and characterising recently predicted anomalies in the wetting behaviour. Finally, the phenomena of reappearing phases and double critical points will be investigated in binary fluids having hydrogen bonding.
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