Figure 6
Suppression of Ostwald ripening by first-order chemical reactions. (A, B) Radii R as a function of time t of droplets evolving in \(d=2\) dimensions (A) and \(d=3\) dimensions (B). The theoretically expected radii are indicated by dashed horizontal lines. 100 droplets with radii chosen uniformly in [10w, 50w] were placed in a periodic cubic domain of size \([0, L]^d\) with \(L=1000 w\). Model parameters are \(s(\phi )= k_\mathrm{f}(1 - \phi ) - k_\mathrm{b}\phi\), \(\phi _\mathrm{out}(t=0) = k_\mathrm{f}/(k_\mathrm{f}+ k_\mathrm{b})\), \(k_\mathrm{f}= 10^{-5} \tau ^{-1}\), \(k_\mathrm{b}= 10^{-4} \tau ^{-1}\), \(\Delta x \approx \ell \approx L\), and a single shell sector for all droplets. Remaining parameters are specified in Fig. 2.
