Jim Lutsko

Jim Lutsko

My interests include Statistical Physics; Crystallization; Density Functional Theory, Simulation methods - particularly rare event techniques, Protein physics, Granular physics and Crystal Growth. I am based in the Physics of Complex Systems and Statistical Mechanics group at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

[005] Possible Instability for Shear-Induced Order-Disorder Transition

J. F. Lutsko and J. W. Dufty, "Possible Instability for Shear-Induced Order-Disorder Transition", Phys. Rev. Lett., 57, 2775 (1986) http://jimlutsko.github.io/files/Lutsko_1986_1.pdf

Abstract

A simple fluid in uniform isothermal shear flow is studied for conditions used in recent nonequilibrium computer simulations. The short-time dynamics for the local conserved densities is found to be unstable at large shear rates for wave vectors near the peak of the structure factor. The critical shear rates obtained are similar to those for an order-disorder transition observed in the computer simulations.