Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
The Journal of Chemical Physics
106 (1997), S. 301-310
ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
In this paper we demonstrate that a small transverse temperature gradient of a few mK/cm induces the nucleation of a wetting layer at the liquid–vapor surface of the critical binary liquid mixture hexadecane+acetone. The nucleation phenomenon is well described by a classical surface nucleation theory [B. M. Law, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1698 (1994)] where far from the critical temperature the height of the energy barrier is independent of the magnitude of the temperature gradient while the characteristic nucleation time A=1/(attempt frequency) is approximately inversely proportional to the transverse temperature gradient which induces laminar fluid flow. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.473195
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