Figure 5

Figure 5: Image sequence of the scalar field from a 2D calculation showing the interaction of two deflagration systems (one planar wall propagating from the right side, and one spherical bubble nucleating from the center). The physical size of the grid is set to 1000 × 1000 fm and resolved by 512 × 512 zones. The run time of the simulation is about two sound crossing times, where the sound speed is c/ V~ 3- , so the shock fronts leading the condensing phase fronts travel across the grid twice. The hot quark (cold hadron) phases have smaller (larger) scalar field values and are represented by black (color) in the colormap.