Kinetic analysis on nanoparticle condensation by molecular dynamics

Donguk Suh, Kenji Yasuoka

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

Condensation on a cubic seed particle was simulated by classical molecular dynamics. Seed size and supersaturation ratio of the system were the factors that were examined in order to observe the effects of the dimension of seeds and thermodynamic conditions. Two stages of nucleation were observed in the phenomenon, where the first stage is from the seed growth and the second from homogeneous nucleation. Therefore, the nucleation rate and growth rate were each calculated by the Yasuoka-Matsumoto method. As seed size increased the growth rate decreased, but there was no clear seed influence on the homogeneous nucleation characteristics. Besides the classical nucleation theory, cluster formation free energy and kinetic analysis were conducted. The free energy in the exponential term of the classical nucleation theory and that obtained from the cluster formation free energy showed different characteristics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Collocated with the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Sum, ICNMM 2012
Pages517-521
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012 Dec 1
EventASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, ICNMM 2012 Collocated with the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. and the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Sum, ICNMM 2012 - Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
Duration: 2012 Jul 82012 Jul 12

Publication series

NameASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Collocated with the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. and the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Sum, ICNMM 2012

Other

OtherASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, ICNMM 2012 Collocated with the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. and the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Sum, ICNMM 2012
Country/TerritoryPuerto Rico
CityRio Grande
Period12/7/812/7/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Process Chemistry and Technology

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