The occurrence of swarms of small bubbles in a variety of industrial systems enhances their performance. However, the effects that size polydispersity may produce on the stability of kinematic waves, the gain factor, mean bubble velocity, kinematic and dynamic wave velocities is, to our...

We simulate model systems of charged spherical particles in their counterion solution and measure the thermodynamic pressure and the pair distribution function from which we derive effective potentials of mean force. For a system with only electrostatic and hard core interactions, we investigate...

We present an analytical study of the dynamical process of the approach to steady state for a driven diffusive system represented by the microemulsion phase of a ternary mixture. The external applied field is given by a “plane Couette” shear flow and the problem is studied within the...

We have studied the aggregation of the porphyrin trans-bis(N-methylpyridinium-4-yl)-diphenylporphyrine (t−H2Pagg) in aqueous solutions by means of light scattering (elastic and quasielastic) and UV-visible absorption measurements. Elastic and dynamic light scattering indicate that the...

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements are made on a three-component isometric (equal volume fractions of water and oil) microemulsion system, composed of AOT/water (0.4% NaCl)/D-octane, in the one-phase channel near the three-phase region at and around the hydrophile-lipophile...

On the basis of a microscopic Hamiltonian on a semi-infinite cubic lattice, we derive the excess surface free energy for a confined ternary mixture of oil, water and amphiphile. Using the standard mean-field approximation for a spin-1 model we calculate the surface parameters in terms of the...

We propose a novel method to obtain averaged interface curvature of complex fluids from their scattered intensity without reference to any specific models. The averaged interface curvature of binary mixtures undergoing spinodal decomposition can be obtained with this method. It was found that...

We study the propagation of elastic perturbations in magneto-rheological slurries of iron particles dispersed in glycerine. The complexity of these systems is revealed in the fibrillar structure acquired under the application of a magnetic field. Recently, it has been reported the observation of...

We demonstrate with the aid of visual investigations that multiply reentrant liquid–liquid transitions can be obtained in ethyl alcohol (E)–water (W) mixtures, by the addition of ions. Multiplicity of reentrance can be tuned by changing the concentration, size, or the structure forming...