Vapor Nucleation and Droplet Growth: Cluster Distribution Kinetics for Open and Closed Systems

Anticholinesterase furocoumarins from Heracleum platytaenium, an endemic species to Idea mountains

“…Droplet growth was explained by combining cluster dynamics. 96 Wu et al simulated drop size and spatial distributions with high precision by using the random fractal model and their numerical simulation results were in good agreement with the bulk of existing experimental data. 97 Ulrich et al simulated the homogeneous deposition of liquid droplets having a 90…”

Molecular clustering physical model of steam condensation and the experimental study on the initial droplet size distribution

“…Since the fact accepted by most investigators that dropwise condensation is a nucleation process, this process must have the general feature of nucleation processes. In fact, the formation of a new phase in a bulk phase always occurs by either homogeneous or heterogeneous nucleation [17], i.e. all of the phase changes are induced by nucleation which is triggered by molecular clustering.…”

A New Population Balance Model for Crystal Size Distributions: Reversible, Size-Dependent Growth and Dissolution

“…The dissolution (reverse) step has its depolymerization counterpart in chainend scission. We have analyzed and discussed the dissolution (or breakage) kernels, δ(x − x m ) and δ(x − (x − x m )), for the monomer-loss (chain-end scission) process (13)(14)(15)(16) …”

“…The analogy with polymerization-depolymerization kinetics assists in the derivation (13)(14)(15)(16). The population balance is written so that accumulation of a crystal of mass x is represented by the time derivative.…”