Scaling in the kinetics of droplet growth and coalescence: heterogeneous nucleation
- 21 March 1989
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 22 (6) , L225-L230
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/22/6/007
Abstract
The kinetics of droplet growth in a heterogeneous nucleation process is investigated using Monte Carlo simulations, scaling theory and the Smoluchowski equation (1916). The exponent describing the scaling of the droplet size distribution and the growth law for the mean droplet size are calculated exactly. The simulation data are found to be consistent with the theoretical predictions in d=1, 2, and 3 dimensions.Keywords
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