TY - JOUR
T1 - Nucleation rates for high supersaturations
AU - Shneidman, Vitaly A.
PY - 2005/9/9
Y1 - 2005/9/9
N2 - A new asymptotic expression for the stationary nucleation flux is obtained. The result provides a nontrivial generalization of the classical expression attributed to Zeldovich, and has a much broader domain of applicability. For extremely high supersaturations when the critical cluster number does not exceed a few units, the preexponential of the nucleation rate exhibits an oscillatory behavior. The latter effect increases for systems with high interfacial tension.
AB - A new asymptotic expression for the stationary nucleation flux is obtained. The result provides a nontrivial generalization of the classical expression attributed to Zeldovich, and has a much broader domain of applicability. For extremely high supersaturations when the critical cluster number does not exceed a few units, the preexponential of the nucleation rate exhibits an oscillatory behavior. The latter effect increases for systems with high interfacial tension.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.115701
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.115701
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:27144519130
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 95
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 11
M1 - 115701
ER -