Homogeneous water nucleation: Experimental study on pressure and carrier gas effects

On the effect of pressure and carrier gas on homogeneous water nucleation.

Homogeneous nucleation rates of water droplets were measured at a nucleation temperature close to 240 K in a Pulse-Expansion Wave Tube (PEWT). Several measures were taken to improve the data obtained with the PEWT. For instance, the molar water vapor fraction was determined with three independent techniques. The resulting standard uncertainty of the supersaturation was within 1.8%. Results are ...

Effect of carrier-gas pressure on barrier to nucleation: Monte Carlo simulation of water/nitrogen system

Molecular dynamics of homogeneous nucleation in the vapor phase of Lennard-Jones. III. Effect of carrier gas pressure.

A molecular dynamics simulation of vapor phase nucleation has been performed with 40,000 Lennard-Jones particles for the target gas and 0-160,000 particles for the carrier gas. Three carrier gas models are adopted, including a soft-core model, a Lennard-Jones model, and a modified Lennard-Jones model in which the attractive interaction can be adjusted. The effect of the carrier-gas pressure is ...

Influence of thermostats and carrier gas on simulations of nucleation.

We investigate the influence of carrier gas and thermostat on molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of nucleation. The task of keeping the temperature constant in MD simulations is not trivial and an inefficient thermalization may have a strong influence on the results. Different thermostating mechanisms have been proposed and used in the past. In particular, we analyze the efficiency of velocity...

Effect of CO2 Concentration in Injecting Gas on Minimum Miscibility Pressure: Compositional Model and Experimental Study

For technical and economic success of miscible gas injection projects, an accurate laboratory measurement of Minimum Miscibility Pressure (MMP) at reservoir conditions is essential. On the other hand, compositional reservoir simulator is a useful tool in gas injection studies and prediction of MMP. The main goal of this paper is to describe a procedure to generate a three phase sequential t...