Kinetics of Evaporation

• Main Authors: Gerasimov, Denis N. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Yurin, Eugeny I. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Series in Surface Sciences, 68
• Subjects: Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Statistical physics.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Materials-Surfaces.; Thin films.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.

This monograph discusses the essential principles of the evaporation process by looking at it at the molecular and atomic level. In the first part methods of statistical physics, physical kinetics and numerical modeling are outlined including the Maxwell's distribution function, the Boltzmann k...