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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 112, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.128303
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- ANR [ANR-2010- BLAN-0402-1]
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We study the fingering instability of the interface between two miscible fluids, a colloidal suspension and its own solvent. The temporal evolution of the interface in a Hele-Shaw cell is found to be governed by the competition between the nonlinear viscosity of the suspension and an off-equilibrium, effective surface tension Gamma(e). By studying suspensions in a wide range of volume fractions, Phi(C), we show that Gamma e similar to Phi(2)(C), in agreement with Korteweg's theory for miscible fluids. The surface tension exhibits an anomalous increase with particle size, which we account for using entropy arguments.
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