Doctoral Dissertations

Abstract

"The homogeneous nucleation rate of nonane has been measured using an expansion cloud chamber. Data were obtained for pre-expansion temperatures of 45°C, 35°C, 25°C, 15°C, 5°C, and -5°C. The measured nucleation rate ranges from 102 to 105 drops/cm3 -sec over a temperature range of 216 K to 270 K. The data set is sufficiently extensive to provide a detailed test for nucleation theories applied to nonane. The measured rates are compared with the "classical" nucleation theory and with a modified classical theory using the replacement factor of Reiss, Katz and Cohen (RKC). It is found that neither of these theories provide an accurate description of the nucleation of nonane. An empirical curve fit to the data, having the same supersaturation dependency as the RKC theory, is presented. From this curve fit, values for the surface tension and sticking coefficient for nonane were inferred"--Abstract, p. ii

Advisor(s)

Kassner, James L.

Committee Member(s)

Zalabsky, Richard A., 1948-2021
Schmitt, James L.
Alexander, Ralph William, Jr.
Hale, Barbara N., -2024
Penico, Anthony J., 1923-2011

Department(s)

Physics

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Physics

Comments

This project was funded under NSF Grants Number ENG- 76-21451 and CPE-8203398

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Fall 1983

Pagination

vii, 82 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-81)

Rights

© 1983 Gregg Wesley Adams, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Thesis Number

T 4847

Print OCLC #

11010877

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