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An analytical theory has been formulated for the stage of nonisothermal nucleation of supercritical particles in a metastable medium with instantaneously generated initial supersaturation. The theory takes into account the nonuniformities of metastable substance concentration and temperature, which result from the nonstationary diffusion of the substance to growing particles and the nonstationary transfer of the heat of the phase transition from the particles to the medium. The formulated theory extends the approach based on the concept of excluded volume that has recently been used in the theory of the stage of nucleation under isothermal conditions. This approach implies that the nucleation intensity of new particles is suppressed in spherical diffusion regions with certain sizes that surround previously nucleated supercritical particles and remaining unchanged in the rest of the medium. It has been shown that, when self-similar solutions are used for nonstationary equations of substance diffusion to particles and heat transfer from the particles, the ratio between the excluded volume and the particle volume is independent of particle size, thereby enabling one to analytically solve the integral equation for the excluded volume throughout a system as a time function at the stage of nucleation. The main characteristics of the phase transition have been found for the end of the stage of nucleation. Comparison has been carried out with the characteristics obtained in terms of the isothermal and nonisothermal nucleation theory upon uniform vapor consumption and heat dissipation (the mean-field approximation of vapor supersaturation and temperature).
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Original Russian Text © A.E. Kuchma, A.K. Shchekin, M.N. Markov, 2014, published in Kolloidnyi Zhurnal, 2014, Vol. 76, No. 6, pp. 752–762.
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Kuchma, A.E., Shchekin, A.K. & Markov, M.N. The stage of nonisothermal nucleation of supercritical particles of a new phase under nonstationary conditions of particle diffusion growth and heat transfer to a medium. Colloid J 76, 701–711 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061933X1406009X
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