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The distribution of the number of particles in a fluid drop and in the vapor-gas layer adjoining the drop is simulated by the distribution of catastrophe, generation, and immigration known from the theory of random processes. An expression is obtained for the evaporation rate and an explicit analytic dependence for the evaporation coefficient.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 109–112, November, 1978.
The authors are grateful to A. V. Chalom for useful discussions of the results.
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Ryazanov, V.V., Nuzhnyi, V.M. Evaporation coefficient of a spherical fluid drop. Soviet Physics Journal 21, 1476–1478 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00890359
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