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The Reactive Model

The reactive surface tension model was proposed by Clavin et al. [25] and it involves particles changing from one particle type to the other if they cross the boundary between fluids. This is done by allowing the reactions

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and

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at every site containing three particles. Here R and B represent a red and a blue particle respectively. On average the same number of each interaction should take place and so the total number of particles of each colour should be conserved. Other than this reaction the particles interact according to the normal FHP rules. The coloured particle being assigned randomly amongst the out-state configuration after the collision.


James Buick
Tue Mar 17 17:29:36 GMT 1998