Supercooling and nucleation
Supercooling and undercooling.
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.
Szilard nucleation model
Zeldovich factor
See also
References
- Lawrence S. Bartell and David T. Wu "Do supercooled liquids freeze by spinodal decomposition?", Journal of Chemical Physics 127 174507 (2007)
- Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Maria J. Ruiz-Montero and Daan Frenkel "Numerical calculation of the rate of crystal nucleation in a Lennard-Jones system at moderate undercooling", Journal of Chemical Physics 104 pp. 9932-9947 (1996)
- Chantal Valeriani "Numerical studies of nucleation pathways of ordered and disordered phases", PhD Thesis (2007)
- Richard C. Flagan "A thermodynamically consistent kinetic framework for binary nucleation", Journal of Chemical Physics 127 214503 (2007)
Related reading
- Andrea Cavagna "Supercooled liquids for pedestrians", Physics Reports 476 pp. 51-124 (2009)
- Dimo Kashchiev "Nucleation", Butterworth-Heinemann (2000) ISBN 978-0-7506-4682-6