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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics versus model grain growth: derivation and some physical implications

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics formalism is proposed to derive the flux of grainy (bubbles-containing) matter, emerging in a nucleation growth process. Some power and non-power limits, due to the applied potential as well as owing to basic correlations in such systems, have been discussed. Some encouragement for such a discussion comes from the fact that the nucleation and growth processes studied, and their kinetics, are frequently reported in literature as self-similar (characteristic of algebraic correlations and laws) both in basic entity (grain; bubble) size as well as time scales.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301436,
  title  = {Nonequilibrium thermodynamics versus model grain growth: derivation and some physical implications},
  author = {J. M. Rubi and A. Gadomski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301436},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure