Critical Comparison of Droplet Models in Homogeneous Nucleation Theory

✍ Scribed by Richard B. McClurg; Richard C. Flagan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 138 KB
• Volume: 201
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9797
• DOI: 10.1006/jcis.1997.5379

✦ Synopsis

single monomers or evaporate by elimination of single We review the droplet models commonly used in calculations monomers. Under this assumption, the flux (J n ) of clusters of the rate of homogeneous nucleation from the vapor. A statistical through a size (n) is mechanical framework is used to form a common basis for comparison of the models. The asymptotic models (Capillarity, Tolman, and higher order models) and the semiphenomenological models