Re-evaluation of the pressure effect for nucleation in laminar flow diffusion chamber experiments with fluent and the fine particle model

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1434-1439

  Herrmann, E ^a   Hyvarinen A P ^b   Brus, D ^b,c   Lihavainen, H ^b   Kulmala, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL DYNAMICS; CALCULATION OF TEMPERATURES; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FINE PARTICLES; FLUENT ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURES; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATIONS; LAMINAR FLOW DIFFUSION CHAMBERS; LOW NUCLEATION TEMPERATURES; MODELING RESULTS; N BUTANOLS; N PENTANOLS; NUCLEATION RATES; NUCLEATION TEMPERATURES; POSITIVE PRESSURES; RE EVALUATIONS; SATURATION RATIOS; SOFTWARE FLUENT; TOTAL PRESSURES;

ALCOHOLS; ARGON; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HELIUM; LAMINAR FLOW; NUCLEATION; RADIOACTIVITY;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

EID: 62749182404     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp809134r     Document Type: Article

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