Supercooling and nucleation

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Supercooling, undercooling and nucleation.

Volmer and Weber kinetic model

Volmer and Weber kinetic model [1] results in the following nucleation rate:

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Szilard nucleation model

Homogeneous nucleation temperature

The homogeneous nucleation temperature (Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T_H} ) is the temperature below which it is almost impossible to avoid spontaneous and rapid freezing.

Zeldovich factor

The Zeldovich factor [2] (Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle Z} ) modifies the Volmer and Weber expression \eqref{eq_IVW}, making it applicable to spherical clusters:

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Zeldovich-Frenkel equation

Zeldovich-Frenkel master equation is given by

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See also Shizgal and Barrett [3].

Nucleation theorem

See also

References

  1. ↑ M. Volmer and A. Weber "Keimbildung in übersättigten Gebilden", Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie 119 pp. 277-301 (1926)
  2. ↑ J. B. Zeldovich "On the theory of new phase formation, cavitation", Acta Physicochimica URSS 18 pp. 1-22 (1943)
  3. ↑ B. Shizgal and J. C. Barrett "Time dependent nucleation", Journal of Chemical Physics 91 pp. 6505-6518 (1989)
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