Teoria entrópica da nucleação e função entropia aplicadas à condensação do vapor dágua / Entropic nucleation theory and entropy function applied to water vapor condensation

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2007

RESUMO

The phenomenon of nucleation is an intrinsically irreversible process. The nucleation is explored by the Entropic Nucleation Theory (ENT), in which, the irreversible process is replaced by an equivalent one, although now, the process is reversible in which there is a change in the enthalpy, and also an structural rearrangement coded in the change of de entropy. To study the dynamics and perform the analysis an isobaric process was chosen. The metastable region was used to develop an expression for the calculation of size of the critical nucleus, having in mind the Landau´s fluctuation theory. This region was obtained with the help of the modified Mollier diagram. The physical and geometric features of the system were crucial to obtain the entropy function, S(H,P0), used to analyze the metastable region. Calculations of the critical nucleus, with respect to the temperature, were in qualitative agreement with Dillmann-Meier work. Although, the function for the critical nucleus is incomplete. To handle with clusters and nucleus in a thermodynamic framework, a constant pressure assemble is preferable having the volume as the conjugated variable. With the help of the isothermal fluctuation theory, in an ideal fluid (Koper-Reiss), the non-isothermal fluctuation theory (Mokross) was developed, and used to study a non-ideal metastable fluid kept at constant pressure and temperature. The thermodynamics parameters of the fluctuating volume element change, differing from those of the bath, and the state equation, S=S(H,P) gives its evolution.

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nucleation flutuação water teoria entrópica da nucleação entropic nucleation theory nucleação função entropia metaestável Água metastable entropy function fluctuation

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