Overview
- Valuable compendium of all major available routes of theoretical research of nucleation phenomena, with emphasis on the formation of liquid droplets from a metastable vapor
- First monograph to describe the models bridging macro- and microscopic approaches to nucleation
- Covers both single- and multi-component nucleation models
- Special focus on molecular dynamics simulation of nucleation, including most advanced simulation methods
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 860)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- binary nucleation
- chemical physics
- density functional theory
- formation of liquid droplets
- macroscopic approach of nucleation
- metastable vapor
- microscopic approach
- microscopic approach of nucleation
- microscopic computer simulation
- molecular dynamics simulation of nucleation
- multi-component nucleation
- multi-component nucleation model
- non-equilibrium phenomena
- nucleation
- nucleation theory
- phase transition
- phase transitions
- phenomenological model
- semi-microscopic approach
- semi-phenomenological theory
- single component nucleation model
- soft condensed matter physics
- theoretical approach nucleation
- theory nucleation phenomena
About this book
One of the most striking phenomena in condensed matter physics is the occurrence of abrupt transitions in the structure of a substance at certain temperatures or pressures. These are first order phase transitions, and examples such as the freezing of water are familiar in everyday life. The conditions at which the transformation takes place can sometimes vary. For example, the freezing point of water is not always 0°C, but the liquid can be supercooled considerably if it is pure enough and treated carefully. The reason for this phenomenon is nucleation.
This monograph covers all major available routes of theoretical research of nucleation phenomena (phenomenological models, semi-phenomenological theories, density functional theories, microscopic and semi-microscopic approaches), with emphasis on the formation of liquid droplets from a metastable vapor. Also, it illustrates the application of these various approaches to experimentally relevant problems.
In spite of the familiarity of the involved phenomena, it is still impossible to calculate nucleation accurately, as the properties and the kinetics of the daughter phase are insufficiently well known. Existing theories based upon classical nucleation theory have on the whole explained the trends in behavior correctly. However they often fail spectacularly to account for new data, in particular in the case of binary or, more generally, multi-component nucleation. The current challenge of this book is to go beyond such classical models and provide a more satisfactory theory by using density functional theory and microscopic computer simulations in order to describe the properties of small clusters. Also, semi-phenomenological models are proposed, which attempt to relate the properties of small clusters to known properties of the bulk phases.
This monograph is an introduction as well as a compendium to researchers in soft condensed matter physics and chemical physics, graduate and post-graduatestudents in physics and chemistry starting on research in the area of nucleation, and to experimentalists wishing to gain a better understanding of the efforts being made to account for their data.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nucleation Theory
Authors: V.I. Kalikmanov
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3643-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3642-1Published: 20 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3643-8Published: 28 November 2012
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 316
Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Physical Chemistry, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Classical and Continuum Physics