Creation of Clusters via a Thermal Quench
| dc.creator | Farjoun, Yossi | |
| dc.date | 2008-10-17 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:11:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:11:27Z | |
| dc.description | The nucleation and growth of clusters in a progressively cooled vapor is studied. The chemical-potential of the vapor increases, resulting in a rapidly increasing nucleation rate. The growth of the newly created clusters depletes monomers, and counters the increase in chemical-potential. Eventually, the chemical potential reaches a maximum and begins to decrease. Shortly thereafter the nucleation of new clusters effectively ceases. Assuming a slow quench rate, asymptotic methods are used to convert the non-linear advection equation of the cluster-size distribution into a fourth-order differential equation, which is solved numerically. The distribution of cluster-sizes that emerges from this creation era of the quench process, and the total amount of clusters generated are found. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Proceedings of ECMI 2008 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3249 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3249 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/171869 | |
| dc.subject | Materials Science | |
| dc.title | Creation of Clusters via a Thermal Quench | |
| dc.type | text |