Homogeneous Nucleation in Inhomogeneous Media II: Nucleation in a Shear Flow

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2003-09-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0309190v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

10 pages, accepted for publication in J. Chem. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1614777

We investigate the influence of a shear flow on the process of nucleation. Mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics is used to derive the Fokker-Planck equation governing the evolution of the cluster size distribution in a metastable phase subjected to a stationary flow. The presence of the flow manifests itself in the expression for the effective diffusion coefficient of a cluster and introduces modifications in the nucleation rate. The implications of these results in condensation and polymer crystallization are discussed.

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