Surface phase transitions in ice: from fundamental interactions to applications
Interfaces divide all phases of matter and yet in most practical settings it is tempting to ignore their energies and the associated implications. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is the introduction of a new pair of canonically conjugate variables—interfacial energy and its c...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6501919 2023-05-15T18:18:26+02:00 Surface phase transitions in ice: from fundamental interactions to applications Wettlaufer, J. S. 2019-06-03 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6501919/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30982455 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0261 en eng The Royal Society Publishing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6501919/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30982455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0261 © 2019 The Author(s) http://royalsocietypublishing.org/licence Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci Articles Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0261 2020-06-07T00:16:34Z Interfaces divide all phases of matter and yet in most practical settings it is tempting to ignore their energies and the associated implications. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is the introduction of a new pair of canonically conjugate variables—interfacial energy and its counterpart the surface area. A key set of questions surrounding the treatment of multiphase flows concerns how and when we must account for such effects. I begin this discussion with an abbreviated review of the basic theory of lower-dimensional phase transitions and describe a range of situations in which the bulk behaviour of a two-phase (and in some cases two-component) system is dominated by surface effects. Then I discuss a number of settings in which the bulk and surface behaviour can interact on equal footing. These can include the dynamic and thermodynamic behaviour of floating sea ice, the freezing and drying of colloidal suspensions (such as soil) and the mechanisms of protoplanetesimal formation by inter-particle collisions in accretion discs. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The physics and chemistry of ice: scaffolding across scales, from the viability of life to the formation of planets’. Text Sea ice PubMed Central (PMC) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 377 2146 20180261 |
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Interfaces divide all phases of matter and yet in most practical settings it is tempting to ignore their energies and the associated implications. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is the introduction of a new pair of canonically conjugate variables—interfacial energy and its counterpart the surface area. A key set of questions surrounding the treatment of multiphase flows concerns how and when we must account for such effects. I begin this discussion with an abbreviated review of the basic theory of lower-dimensional phase transitions and describe a range of situations in which the bulk behaviour of a two-phase (and in some cases two-component) system is dominated by surface effects. Then I discuss a number of settings in which the bulk and surface behaviour can interact on equal footing. These can include the dynamic and thermodynamic behaviour of floating sea ice, the freezing and drying of colloidal suspensions (such as soil) and the mechanisms of protoplanetesimal formation by inter-particle collisions in accretion discs. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The physics and chemistry of ice: scaffolding across scales, from the viability of life to the formation of planets’. |
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