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Energy Driven Pattern Formation In Planar Dipole-Dipole Systems In The Presence Of Weak Noise, Jaron P. Kent-Dobias '14, Andrew Bernoff
Energy Driven Pattern Formation In Planar Dipole-Dipole Systems In The Presence Of Weak Noise, Jaron P. Kent-Dobias '14, Andrew Bernoff
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We study pattern formation in planar fluid systems driven by intermolecular cohesion (which manifests as a line tension) and dipole-dipole repulsion which are observed in physical systems including ferrofluids in Hele-Shaw cells and Langmuir layers. When the dipolar repulsion is sufficiently strong, domains undergo forked branching reminiscent of viscous fingering. A known difficulty with these models is that the energy associated with dipole-dipole interactions is singular at small distances. Following previous work, we demonstrate how to ameliorate this singularity and show that in the macroscopic limit, only the relative scale of the microscopic details of a system are relevant, and …