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Explosive Boiling of Superheated Cryogenic Liquids; Foreword; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Equilibrium, Stability, and Metastability; 2.1 Types of Equilibria: Stability Criteria; 2.2 Boundary of Essential Instability; 2.3 Elements of Statistical Theory; 2.4 Phase Stability Against Finite Perturbations; 2.5 Critical Heterophase Fluctuations; 2.6 Relaxation Processes in Metastable Phases; 2.7 Dynamics of Heterophase Fluctuations; 2.8 Kinetic Nucleation Theory (Multiparameter Version); 2.9 Approximations and Limitations of Classical Nucleation Theory |
2.10 Nucleation at a High Degree of Metastability2.11 Nucleation Bypassing the Saddle Point; 2.12 Some Comments on Nucleation Theory; 3 Attainable Superheating of One-Component Liquids; 3.1 Two Approaches to the Determination of the Work of Formation of a Critical Bubble; 3.2 Boiling-Up Kinetics of Superheated Liquids; 3.3 Elements of the Stochastic Theory of Nucleation; 3.4 Experimental Procedures in the Analysis of Boiling in Superheated Liquids; 3.5 Quasistatic Methods of Investigating Limiting Superheatings of Liquids; 3.6 Dynamic Methods of Investigating Explosive Boiling-Up of Liquids |
3.7 Results of Experiments on Classical Liquids3.8 Superheating of Quantum Liquids; 3.9 Surface Tension of Vapor Nuclei; 3.10 Cavitation Strength of Cryogenic Liquids; 3.11 Attainable Superheating of Liquid Argon at Negative Pressures; 3.12 Initiated Nucleation; 3.13 Heterogeneous Nucleation; 4 Nucleation in Solutions of Liquefied Gases; 4.1 Critical Nucleus and the Work of its Formation; 4.2 Theory of Nucleation in Binary Solutions; 4.3 Attainable Superheating of Solutions of Hydrocarbons; 4.4 Methods of Experimentation on Solutions of Cryogenic Liquids |
4.5 Solutions with Complete Solubility of the Components4.6 Solutions with Partial Solubility of the Components; 4.7 Equation of State and Boundaries of Thermodynamic Stability of Solutions; 4.8 Properties of Critical Bubbles in Binary Solutions; 4.9 Comparison of Theory and Experiment for Binary Solutions; 4.10 Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Nucleation in Three-Component Solutions; 4.11 Attainable Superheatings of Ternary Solutions of Cryogenic Liquids; 5 Nucleation in Highly Correlated Systems; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Critical Configuration and its Stability; 5.3 Steady-State Nucleation |
5.4 Peculiarities of New Phase Formation in the Critical Region5.5 Experimental Investigations of Nucleation in the Vicinity of Critical and Tricritical Points; 5.6 Comparison of Theory and Experiment; 5.7 Nucleation in the Vicinity of a Spinodal Curve; 5.8 Theory of Spinodal Decomposition; 5.9 Experimental Studies of Spinodal Decomposition; 6 Nucleation Kinetics Near the Absolute Zero of Temperature; 6.1 Quantum Tunneling of Nuclei; 6.2 Limiting Supersaturations of (4)He-(3)He-Solutions; 6.3 Formation of Quantum Vortices in Superfluid Helium |
6.4 Quantum Nucleation Near the Boundary of Essential Instability |