title: Scaled vapor-to-liquid nucleation in a Lennard-Jones system.
abstract: Scaling of the homogenous vapor-to-liquid nucleation rate, J, is observed in a model Lennard-Jones (LJ) system. The model uses Monte Carlo simulation-generated small cluster growth to decay rate constant ratios and the kinetic steady-state nucleation rate formalism to determine J at four temperatures below the LJ critical temperature, T{c}. When plotted vs the scaled supersaturation, lnS/[T{c}/T-1]{3/2}, the values of logJ are found to collapse onto a single line. A similar scaling has been observed for the experimental nucleation rate data of water and toluene.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, Missouri 65409, USA.
authors.forename: Barbara N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Hale
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thomason