Homogeneous Nucleation in Inhomogeneous Media II: Nucleation in a Shear Flow
arXiv:cond-mat/0309190 · doi:10.1063/1.1614777
Abstract
We investigate the influence of a shear flow on the process of nucleation. Mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics is used to derive the Fokker-Planck equation governing the evolution of the cluster size distribution in a metastable phase subjected to a stationary flow. The presence of the flow manifests itself in the expression for the effective diffusion coefficient of a cluster and introduces modifications in the nucleation rate. The implications of these results in condensation and polymer crystallization are discussed.
10 pages, accepted for publication in J. Chem. Phys
References in corpus (3)
Cited by in corpus (11)
- Effects of shear flow on phase nucleation and crystallization
- Homogeneous nucleation under shear in a two-dimensional Ising model: cluster growth, coalescence and breakup
- Extension of Classical Nucleation Theory for Uniformly Sheared Systems
- Homogeneous nucleation of colloidal melts under the influence of shearing fields
- Classical Nucleation Theory for the Crystallization Kinetics in Sheared Liquids
- Brownian motion of finite-inertia particles in a simple shear flow
- To make a glass - avoid the crystal
- Morphology of Critically-Sized Crystalline Nuclei at Shear-Induced Crystal Nucleation in Amorphous Solid
- Equilibrium Fluid-Crystal Interfacial Free Energy of Bcc-Crystallizing Aqueous Suspensions of Polydisperse Charged Spheres
- Systematic Coarse-Graining in Nucleation Theory
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of small-scale systems