Vi. Kalikmanov et Meh. Vandongen, SEMIPHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY OF HOMOGENEOUS VAPOR-LIQUID NUCLEATION, The Journal of chemical physics, 103(10), 1995, pp. 4250-4255
A new semiphenomenological theory of homogeneous vapor-liquid nucleati
on is proposed. It is based on the Fisher droplet model applied at the
saturation point within the framework of the kinetic approach. The mi
croscopic surface tension of a droplet is supposed to have the Tolman
form. The unknown Tolman length is naturally identified by equating a
known empirical value of saturation pressure p(sat) to the sum of the
series over all droplet sizes for p(sat) emerging from the Fisher mode
l. The theory contains no adjustable parameters. Predictions of the ne
w theory for various substances are compared with available experiment
al data and with the three other widely used theoretical models: class
ical nucleation theory, corrected Dillmann-Meier and Delale-Meier theo
ry. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.