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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 129, 期 24, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3043570
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bubbles; density functional theory; drops; flow instability; free energy; liquid-vapour transformations; nucleation; van der Waals forces
The process of nucleation of vapor bubbles from a superheated liquid and of liquid droplets from a supersaturated vapor is investigated using the modified-core van der Waals model density functional theory [J. F. Lutsko, J. Chem. Phys. 128, 184711 (2008)]. A novel approach is developed whereby nucleation is viewed as a transition from a metastable state to a stable state via the minimum free energy path, which is identified using the nudged elastic-band method for exploring free energy surfaces. This allows for the unbiased calculation of the properties of sub- and super-critical clusters, as well as of the critical cluster. For Lennard-Jones fluids, the results compare well to simulation and support the view that at low to moderate supersaturation nucleation proceeds smoothly rather than via spinodal-like instabilities as has been suggested recently. The possibility that the nucleation barrier vanishes at high supersaturation is, however, not ruled out.
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