Nucleation Theory and Applications

J.  W. P. Schmelzer, G. Roepke, V. B. Priezzhev
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Publishing House, Dubna, 1999

1.  Introduction                                                1
2.  V. V. Slezov, J. Schmelzer: Kinetics of Nucleation-Growth
Processes: The Initial Stages                                   6
3.  J. W. P. Schmelzer, G. Roepke, J. Schmelzer, jn.,
V. V. Slezov: Shapes of Cluster Size Distributions
Evolving in Nucleation-Growth Processes                        82
4.  W. Kleinig, J. W. P. Schmelzer, G. Roepke: Fragmentation
in Dissipative Collisions: A Computer Model Study             130
5.  F. M. Kuni, A. P. Grinin, V. B. Kurasov: Kinetics of
Condensation at Gradual Creation of the Metastable State      160
6.  N. M. Kortsenstein, E. W. Samuilow: The Effect of
Temperature Pulsations on the Rate of Homogeneous Nucleation
in Vapor Condensation                                         194
7.  F. M. Kuni, A. K. Shchekin, A. P. Grinin: Kinetics of
Condensation on Macroscopic Solid Nuclei at Low Dynamic
Vapor Supersaturation                                         208
8.  J. W. P. Schmelzer, J. Schmelzer jn., I. S. Gutzow:
Reconciling Gibbs and van der Waals: A New Approach to
Nucleation Theory                                             237
9.  J. W. P. Schmelzer: Comments on Curvature Dependent
Surface Tension and Nucleation Theory                         268
10.  V. B. Priezzhev: The Upper Critical Dimension of the
Abelian Sandpile Model                                        290
11.  A. M. Gusak, A. O. Bogatyrev: Thermodynamic and
Kinetic Constraints on the Nucleation of Intermediate Phases
During Reactive Diffusion                                     310
12.  A. K. Shchekin, D. V. Tatianenko, F. M. Kuni: Towards
Thermodynamics of Uniform Film  Formation on Solid
Insoluble Particles                                           320
13.  S. I. Bastrukov, D. V. Podgainy, I. V. Molodtsova,
V. S. Salamatin, O. I. Streltsova: Elastodynamics  of
Nuclear Fission in the Elastic Globe Model                    341
14.  B. M. Smirnov: Excitations and Melting of a System
of Bound Atoms                                                355
15.  I. Gutzow, D. Ilieva, V. Yamakov, Ph. Babalievski,
L. D. Pye: Glass Transition: An Analysis in Terms of a
Differential Geometry Approach                                368
16.  G. A. Sycheva: Nucleation of Sodium Zinc Phosphate:
Whether it is Homogeneous or Not?                             419
17.  J. W. P. Schmelzer, T. N. Vasilevskaya, N. S. Andreev:
On the Initial Stages of Spinodal Decomposition               425
18.  B. J. Mokross: Nucleation in Non-Homogeneous
Enthalpy Systems                                              445
19.  J. Moeller, J. W. P. Schmelzer, I. Gutzow: Shapes of
Critical Clusters under Stress                                464
20.  Appendices                                               492

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