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| URI: | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/FDAB3246-6432-4271-8A1C-B7D8B950DD71 | ||
| Year | 1997 | ||
| Type of Item | Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication | ||
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| Bibliographic Citation | M. Lazaridis , Y. Drossinos " Energy fluctuations in steady-state binary Nucleation". J. Phys. A: Math. and General ,vol. 30,no.11, pp. 3847-3865 ,1997. | ||
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An analytical method to obtain the steady-state nucleation flux of binary liquid droplets is developed. The method is based on the solution of a Fokker - Planck equation for the concentration of clusters where both number (size) and cluster-energy fluctuations are included. The Fokker - Planck equation is solved in the vicinity of the saddle point. The kinetic prefactor is found to depend on the product of the three eigenvalues of a matrix that describes fluctuations about the critical cluster. The explicit, analytical expression for the total steady-state nucleation rate is applied to the water - ethanol binary system. The model predicts a nucleation rate that is slightly higher than the classical nucleation rate.
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