TY - JOUR
T1 - Universal Nucleation Behavior of Sheared Systems
AU - Goswami, Amrita
AU - Dalal, Indranil Saha
AU - Singh, Jayant K.
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board (sanction number STR/2019/000090 and CRG/2019/001325). Computational resources were provided by the HPC cluster of the Computer Center (CC), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Physical Society.
PY - 2021/5/12
Y1 - 2021/5/12
N2 - Using molecular simulations and a modified classical nucleation theory, we study the nucleation, under flow, of a variety of liquids: different water models, Lennard-Jones, and hard sphere colloids. Our approach enables us to analyze a wide range of shear rates inaccessible to brute-force simulations. Our results reveal that the variation of the nucleation rate with shear is universal. A simplified version of the theory successfully captures the nonmonotonic temperature dependence of the nucleation behavior, which is shown to originate from the violation of the Stokes-Einstein relation.
AB - Using molecular simulations and a modified classical nucleation theory, we study the nucleation, under flow, of a variety of liquids: different water models, Lennard-Jones, and hard sphere colloids. Our approach enables us to analyze a wide range of shear rates inaccessible to brute-force simulations. Our results reveal that the variation of the nucleation rate with shear is universal. A simplified version of the theory successfully captures the nonmonotonic temperature dependence of the nucleation behavior, which is shown to originate from the violation of the Stokes-Einstein relation.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85106390557
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.195702
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.195702
M3 - Article
C2 - 34047572
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 126
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 19
M1 - 195702
ER -