Homogeneous nucleation in inhomogeneous media. II. Nucleation in a shear flow
- 8 November 2003
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 119 (18) , 9888-9893
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1614777
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
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