Homogeneous Nucleation in Inhomogeneous Media II: Nucleation in a Shear Flow

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8 September 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0309190

Abstract

We investigate the influence of a shear flow on the process of nucleation. Mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics is used to derive the Fokker-Planck equation governing the evolution of the cluster size distribution in a metastable phase subjected to a stationary flow. The presence of the flow manifests itself in the expression for the effective diffusion coefficient of a cluster and introduces modifications in the nucleation rate. The implications of these results in condensation and polymer crystallization are discussed.

Keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION
DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT
FLOW ON THE PROCESS
HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION
INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA
MEDIA II
METASTABLE
MODIFICATIONS
NUCLEATION
SHEAR FLOW

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Published version: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 119 (18), 9888.

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