Kinematic separation of mixtures
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 45 (12) , 8611-8616
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.45.8611
Abstract
A phenomenon of spontaneous separation of components in an initially uniform fluid mixture is found experimentally. A qualitative explanation of the effect is proposed in terms of nonparallel streamlines in the medium.Keywords
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