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Plateau-Rayleigh instability





3D-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo simulation

longtitudinal view of a cylinder transforming into a chain of droplets

conserved-order-parameter Ising model with nearest neighbor (NN) interaction J_NN

f.c.c. lattice (12 NNs; J_NN / kT_crit. = 0.40837)

here: J_NN / kT = 1.9

color key: coordination number from red (monomers) to purple (12 NNs)

simulation cell size = (1024 × 128 × 128) a³ = 8'388'608 lattice sites

number of atoms = 162'304

time is measured in Monte Carlo steps (MCS)

initial cylinder diameter = 20 a

periodic boundary conditions

f.c.c. metals: Cu (a = 0.1801 nm), Au (a = 0.2039 nm), Ag (a = 0.2043 nm)

further information on J. A. F. Plateau and Lord Rayleigh on Wikipedia

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Copyright: Dr. Lars Röntzsch, Dresden, GERMANY.