Physics

On peculiarities of modeling of condensation by molecular dynamics methods

A. G. Vorontsov

South Ural State University

Abstract: Kinetics of nucleation process was studied by molecular dynamic simulation. The formation of cluster is found to be a two step process. The first step is the formation of a metastable cluster with excess energy. The second step is the stabilization of the cluster during the energy loss with elastic collisions with the inert gas atoms. The necessity of kinetics was shown.

Keywords: metal nanoparticles, condensation, computer simulation.

UDC: 532.74:541.121

Received: 04.10.2010