Anomalous relaxation in colloidal systems / Avinash Kumar.
2022
QD549.2.F74
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Title
Anomalous relaxation in colloidal systems / Avinash Kumar.
Author
Kumar, Avinash, author.
ISBN
9783031132803 (electronic bk.)
3031132807 (electronic bk.)
3031132793
9783031132797
3031132807 (electronic bk.)
3031132793
9783031132797
Published
Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 125 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-13280-3 doi
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QD549.2.F74
Dewey Decimal Classification
541/.345
Summary
The thesis presents a systematic study of the Mpemba effect in a colloidal system with a micron-sized particle diffusing in a water bath. While the Mpemba effect, where a systems thermal relaxation time is a non-monotonic function of the initial temperature, has been observed in water since Aristotles era, the underlying mechanism of the effect is still unknown. Recent studies indicate that the effect is not limited to water and has been studied both experimentally and numerically in a wide variety of systems. By carefully designing a double-well potential using feedback-based optical tweezers, the author demonstrates that an initially hot system can sometimes cool faster than an initially warm system. The author also presents the first observation in any system of another counterintuitive effectthe inverse Mpemba effectwhere the colder of the two samples reaches the thermal equilibrium at a hot temperature first. The results for both the observations agree with theoretical predictions based on the Fokker-Planck equation. The experiments reveal that, for carefully chosen conditions, a strong version of both of the effects are observed where a system can relax to the bath temperature exponentially faster than under typical conditions.
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"Doctoral thesis accepted by Simon Fraser University, Canada."
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ANOMALOUS RELAXATION IN COLLOIDAL SYSTEMS.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Particle dynamics
Chapter 3. Optical Feedback traps
Chapter 4. Mpemba effect
Chapter 5. Inverse Mpemba effect
Chapter 6. Higher-order Mpemba effect
Chapter 7. Conclusions.
Chapter 2. Particle dynamics
Chapter 3. Optical Feedback traps
Chapter 4. Mpemba effect
Chapter 5. Inverse Mpemba effect
Chapter 6. Higher-order Mpemba effect
Chapter 7. Conclusions.