Coalescence of two nanoscopic argon droplets by phase-field modeling

Data of the coalescing droplets’ interface contours are stored in *.csv files, compressed as *.tar.xz archives that can be found in the contour/ subdirectories (Tree view). One *.csv file contains the data for a single interface contour described by spatial coordinate pairs x [nm] and r [nm] at the time instance t [ps] indicated by the time stamp in the file name, e.g.: *_t000000100.csv => t=100 ps. The archive "early.tar.xz" contains data for the "early" stages of the coalescence process with fine time resolution (1 ps) and the archive "full.tar.xz" contains data for the "full" process with coarser time resolution (10, 20 and 40 ps for R=25, 50 and 100 nm).

A simple python script to plot coalescing droplets contours from the *.csv is provided in the subdirectory python/ (Tree view). It will generate contour plots and save them as *.pdf files. Additionally, a sequence of all contours will be created by merging the *.pdf files to a single file.

Extracted from the interface contours, the evolution of the bridge radius r_b [nm] as well as back of drop positions x_bdl [nm] (left) and x_bdr [nm] (right) over time t [ns] can be found in the *_evo.tab files.