Toward a quantitative theory of ultrasmall liquid droplets and vapor-liquid nucleation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4988-4995

  Li, Zhidong ^a   Wu, Jianzhong ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED SURFACES; DROPLET SIZES; FINITE SIZE; FLUCTUATION EFFECTS; GAUSSIAN CURVATURES; INTERFACIAL TENSION; LENNARD-JONES MODELS; LIQUID DROPLETS; MACROSCOPIC SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURES; MOLECULAR DIAMETER; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; PRESSURE CHANGING; QUANTITATIVE THEORY; SIMPLE FLUIDS; SIMULATION DATA; SMALL DROPLETS; SMALL SYSTEMS; TWO TYPES; VAPOR-LIQUID;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FLUID MECHANICS; FORECASTING; LAPLACE EQUATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; VAPORS;

FLUIDS;

EID: 49549122436     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie070578i     Document Type: Article

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