Phase transitions

Kinetics of nucleation of the solid phase in supercooled solutions or liquids under heat-insulating conditions: Intensive nucleation stage

V. V. Slezov^a, P. N. Ostapchuk<sup>b

a</sup> National Science Centre Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology
^b Institute of Electrophysics & Radiation Technologies National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Abstract: The kinetics of decomposition of a supercooled melt or a viscous fluid under heat-insulating conditions during intensive nucleation has been investigated. Particles of a new phase have been studied, whose size is larger than the critical value, and for which the times are longer than the settling time of the classical quasi-steady state, which is characteristic of subcritical nuclei. The heat removal from the phase boundary is assumed to be the key process in the vicinity of a growing particle. The estimates of the duration of the stage of intensive nucleation, the maximum number of nucleated particles, and their average ‘size’' have been obtained. Numerical simulations have been performed for nickel.

Received: 17.11.2010

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2011, 53:7, 1456–1463

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