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100 years after the first observation of ripening by Ostwald and 40 years after the first publication of a theory describing this process, this monograph presents, in a self-consistent and comprehensive manner, all the bits and pieces of coarsening theories so that the main issues and the underlying mathematics of self-similar coarsening of dispersed systems can be understood. It contains all of the background material necessary to understand growth and coarsening of spherical particles or droplets in a liquid or solid matrix. Some basic knowledge of heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics and differential equations would be helpful, but not necessary, as all the concepts required are introduced. The text is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as for researchers. Rather than giving a complete survey of the field, it presents a careful derivation of the existing results and places them into some perspective.

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Author:   Lorenz Ratke ,  Peter W. Voorhees
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2002 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.360kg
ISBN:  

9783540425632

ISBN 10:   3540425632
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   04 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Thermodynamics of alloys.- 3. Transport of heat and mass.- 4. Growth.- 5. Statistics of growth.- 6. Coarsening — Basics and Growth Laws.- 7. Ostwald ripening — Wagner analysis.- 8. Ostwald ripening — Marqusee and Ross type analysis.- 9. Multiparticle diffusion analysis.- 10. Nucleation, Growth and Coarsening.- A. Droplet and particle motion.- A.1 Some basic fluid dynamic equations.- A.2 Solid sphere moving in a gravity field.- A.3 Droplet moving in a gravity field.- A.4 Thermocapillary convection and motion.- B. Nucleation.- B.1 Thermodynamics of nucleation.- B.2 Kinetic theory of nucleation.- B.2.1 Stationary nucleation rate.- B.2.2 Time dependent nucleation.- B.3 Heterogeneous nucleation.- List of Variables.

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