Abstract
Abstract The demixing of a horizontal fluid layer of far-critical composition in the presence of a vertical temperature gradient can cause the formation of dissipative structures and thereby lead to a regular distribution of the precipitate. The occurrence of these convective structures is explained with the model of a Rayleigh-Benard instability (RBI) which is driven by parallel gradients of temperature and concentration. The distribution of the precipitate is a synergetic effect of the macroscopic convective pattern and the local action of the Marangoni flow at the surfaces of the drops. If boundary conditions prohibit an RBI, the distribution of the precipitate also becomes inhomogeneous in course of time; however, in this case no regular pattern is observable and the inhomogeneities develop mainly due to the Marangoni convection near the surfaces of the larger drops that have settled at the boundary of the sample volume
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