Argon Nucleation

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Abstract

Argon belongs to the class of so called simple fluids whose behavior on molecular level can be adequately described by the Lennard-Jones interaction potential
$$\begin{aligned} u_\mathrm{LJ }(r) = 4\varepsilon _\mathrm{LJ } \left[\left(\frac{\sigma _\mathrm{LJ }}{r}\right)^{12} - \left(\frac{\sigma _\mathrm{LJ }}{r}\right)^6\right] \end{aligned}$$
where \(\varepsilon _\mathrm{LJ }\) is the depth of the potential and \(\sigma _\mathrm{LJ }\) is the molecular diameter; for argon \(\varepsilon _\mathrm{LJ }/k_\mathrm{B }= 119.8\) K, \(\sigma _\mathrm{LJ }=3.40\)Å [1]. Since argon plays an exceptional role in various areas of soft condensed matter physics, its equilibrium properties have been extensively studied experimentally [2], theoretically [3], in computer simulations - Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics - [4, 5] and by means of the density functional theory [6, 7].

Keywords

Nucleation Rate Supersonic Nozzle Supersaturated Vapor Mean First Passage Time Nucleation Experiment 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Twister Supersonic Gas Solutions BVRijswijkNetherlands

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