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FLUID DYNAMICS RESEARCH
Volume 40, Issue 7-8, Pages 597-605Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluiddyn.2007.12.012
Keywords
bubble nucleation; molecular dynamics simulation; metastable state; nucleation rate; negative pressure
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The liquid-vapor nucleation phenomenon is important for understanding the initial stage of a process such as cavitation, boiling and phreatic explosion. The recent development in molecular simulation has enabled us to study the bubble nucleation phenomena from a molecular point of view. The molecular dynamics simulations of the homogeneous liquid-vapor nucleation for a Lennard-Jones fluid were carried out to microscopically investigate the initial stage of bubble formation. The system pressure was reduced by an uniform system expansion to initiate the liquid-vapor nucleation in the metastable state. The nucleation rate was calculated at three different temperatures by the survival probability of the bubble-free state. As a result, the nucleation rate was seven to nine orders of magnitude greater than that estimated by the classical nucleation theory and the ratio of the nucleation rate by molecular simulation to the classical theory depended on the temperature. The volume of the bubble nucleus was also calculated by two different methods. (c) 2008 The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics and Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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