Heterogeneous Nucleation and Fisher's Droplet Picture

Simulation of aerosol formation due to rapid cooling of multispecies vapors

“…(19) yields an accurate agreement with the full Becker-Döring approach, at very low computational cost in contrast to the full n-component Becker-Döring (NBD) equations [5], for which comparative results were obtained at a substantial computational cost using multigrid methods. We notice that the steady-state classical nucleation theory based on Reiss [24] almost coincides with our prediction for J N , which is based on earlier work of Stauffer et al [25], establishing that both the Reiss and Stauffer approaches yield quite similar results for J N .…”

Observation of Anomalously Large Supercooling in Carbon Dioxide

“…Thus it is not surprising that at a given sealed super saturation charged particles which induce nucleation of vapor bubbles far from T c are not effective close to T co Indeed, such an effect has been predicted by a droplet model of nucleation. 16 This droplet model also predicts an increase in 6T/e for homogeneous nucleation (with, say, J=l cm" 3 ); however, the increase (about 20% in the density range covered by this experiment) is too small to explain the anomalously large supercooling we have observed close to the critical point of C0 2 as has been observed in binary liquid mixtures.…”

Determination of the coexistence curve, critical temperature, density, and pressure of bulk nuclear matter from fragment emission data

“…Fisher's droplet model [25,26] is a physical cluster theory that has successfully: described the cluster distributions in percolating systems [42] and lattice gas (Ising) systems [49]; reproduced the compressibility factor at the critical point [50]; predicted (within a few percent) the compressibility factor of real fluids from the triple point to the critical temperature [51,52]; and has been used to describe the nucleation rate of real fluids [53,54].…”