Nucleation Theory

• Main Author: Kalikmanov, V.I (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 860
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Continuum physics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Physical Chemistry.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Classical Continuum Physics.

This monograph covers the major available routes of theoretical research of nucleation phenomena––phenomenological models, semi-phenomenological theories, density functional theories and microscopic approaches––with emphasis on the formation of liquid droplets from a metastable vapor. It also illust...