| Abstract: | The evolution of the structure of a medium containing disperse elements (the drops in a weakly viscous fluid, rigid spheres in glycerin, and air pores in a gel) is studied experimentally in the case where the gradient temperature and the concentration fields are absent in the system, and the medium is isolated from the influence of an external force field (including gravity forces). It is shown that these systems are nonequilibrium: if the initial distance between disperse particles is of the order of their sizes, the particles approach until they come in contact (coagulation) irrespective of the scale of the system. Lavrent’ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 53–58, May–June, 1999. |
