Nucleation Theory

• Main Author: Kalikmanov, V.I. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 860
• Subjects: Physics.; Chemistry, Physical organic.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Physical Chemistry.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Classical Continuum Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3643-8

This monograph covers the major available routes of theoretical research of nucleation phenomenaphenomenological models, semi-phenomenological theories, density functional theories and microscopic approacheswith emphasis on the formation of liquid droplets from a metastable vapor. It also illust...

Table of Contents:

• Thermodynamics of a two-phase system
• Classical nucleation theory
• Nucleation theorems
• Density functional theory
• Extended modified drop model and dynamic nucleation theory
• Semi-phenomenological approach: mean-field kinetic nucleation theory
• Computer simulations of nucleation
• Nucleation at high supersaturations
• Argon nucleation
• Binary nucleation - General case
• Binary nucleation with supercritical fluids: coarse-grained nucleation theory
• Multi-component nucleation
• Hetrogeneous nucleation.