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·2010
Crossover between 2D and 3D Fluid Dynamics in the Diffusion of Islands in Ultrathin Freely Suspended Smectic Films
Zoom Nguyen, Markus Atkinson, Cheol Soo Park, Joseph E. Maclennan, Matthew A. Glaser, Noel A. Clark
IF 9Physical Review Letters
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The Stokes paradox, that moving a disk at finite velocity through an infinite two-dimensional (2D) viscous fluid requires no force, leads, via the Einstein relation, to an infinite diffusion coefficient D for the disk. Saffman and Delbrück proposed that if the 2D fluid is a thin film immersed in a 3D viscous medium, then the film should behave as if it were of finite size, and D∼ -ln(aη'), where a is the inclusion radius and η' is the viscosity of the 3D medium. By studying the Brownian motion of islands in freely suspended smectic liquid crystal films a few molecular layers thick, we verify this dependence using no free parameters, and confirm the subsequent prediction by Hughes, Pailthorpe, and White of a crossover to 3D Stokes-like behavior when the diffusing island is sufficiently large.

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ViscosityCrossoverViscous liquidDiffusionRADIUSBrownian motionMaterials scienceCondensed matter physicsPhysicsMechanics
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2010