Gas-liquid nucleation at large metastability: Unusual features and a new formalism

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Santra, Mantu ^a   Singh, Rakesh S ^a   Bagchi, Biman ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

classical Monte Carlo simulations; classical phase transitions (theory); metastable states; nucleation (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953718100     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2011/03/P03017     Document Type: Article

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