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Monte Carlo simulation study of droplet nucleation.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Neimark, Alexander V. Vishnyakov, Aleksey |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | A new rigorous Monte Carlo simulation approach is employed to study nucleation barriers for droplets in Lennard-Jones fluid. Using the gauge cell method we generate the excess isotherm of critical clusters in the size range from two to six molecular diameters. The ghost field method is employed to compute the cluster free energy and the nucleation barrier with desired precision of (1-2)kT. Based on quantitative results obtained by Monte Carlo simulations, we access the limits of applicability of the capillarity approximation of the classical nucleation theory and the Tolman equation. We show that the capillarity approximation corrected for vapor nonideality and liquid compressibility provides a reasonable assessment for the size of critical clusters in Lennard-Jones fluid; however, its accuracy is not sufficient to predict the nucleation barriers for making practical estimates of the rate of nucleation. The established dependence of the droplet surface tension on the droplet size cannot be approximated by the Tolman equation for small droplets of radius less than four molecular diameters. We confirm the conclusion of ten Wolde and Frenkel [J. Chem. Phys. 109, 9901 (1998)] that integration of the normal component of the Irving-Kirkwood pressure tensor severely underestimates the nucleation barriers for small clusters. |
| Starting Page | 174508 |
| Ending Page | 174508 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://coewww.rutgers.edu/~aneimark/PDFs/Droplet_JCP_2005.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://web.mst.edu/~hale/argonMC/References/JCP.2005.Neimark.LJ.nuclMC.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 15910046v1 |
| Volume Number | 122 |
| Issue Number | 17 |
| Journal | The Journal of chemical physics |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Capillarity Chemical procedure Diameter (qualifier value) Estimated Leucaena pulverulenta Monte Carlo Method Surface Tension free energy vapor |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
