A new phenomenological approach to gas–liquid nucleation based on the scaling properties of the critical nucleus
- 15 June 1997
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 106 (23) , 9957-9960
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.473884
Abstract
The scaling properties of the critical nucleus, as proposed recently by McGraw and Laaksonen, are analyzed in the context of density functional results for simple Lennard-Jones systems. A simple phenomenological approach with no adjustable parameters is introduced to test the validity of these scaling relations in describing the nucleation behavior of nonpolar and weakly polar vapors.Keywords
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