A scheme of computation of the condensate chemical potential per molecule as a function of the droplet equimolecular radius for stable and critical droplets on uncharged or charged spherical particle of molecular size at heterogeneous nucleation has been considered. The scheme is based of the gradient density functional theory (DFT) with the van der Waals (vdW) and Carnahan–Starling (СS) models for the hard-sphere contribution to intermolecular interaction in liquid and vapor phases and interfaces. The particle serving as a condensation center in the case of heterogeneous nucleation has been characterized by an attractive short-range molecular potential and the long-range electric Coulomb potential. The dielectric permittivities of the droplet–vapor systems have been taken as known functions of the local condensate density and temperature for polar and nonpolar fluids. Detailed numerical calculations of the density profiles in critical and stable equilibrium droplets at water or argon nucleation in presence o
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)162–172
JournalFluid Phase Equilibria
Volume424
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

    Research areas

  • Droplet, Nucleation, Density Functional, Electric Field, Molecular Field, Chemical Potential

    Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Colloid and Surface Chemistry
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Surfaces and Interfaces

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