Growth and Coarsening
Subtitle: Ostwald Ripening in Material Processing
By: by Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
Contributors: Voorhees, Peter W.
Series: Engineering Materials; Engineering Materials
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9783642076442; 9783662048849
Subjects: Surfaces (Physics); Materials; Chemical engineering
Description: 100 years after the first observation of ripening by Ostwald and 40 years after the first publication of a theory describing this process, this monograph presents in a self-consistent and comprehensive manner, all the bits and pieces of coarsening theories so that the main issues and the underlying mathematics of self-similar coarsening of dispersed systems can be understood. It contains all of the background material necessary to understand growth and coarsening of spherical particles or droplets in a liquid or solid matrix. Some basic knowledge of heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics and differential equations would be helpful, but not necessary, as all the concepts required are introduced. The text is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as for researchers. Rather than giving a complete survey of the field, it presents a careful derivation of the existing results and places them into some perspective.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Thermodynamics of Alloys; title: Transport of Heat and Mass; title: Growth; title: Statistics of Growth; title: Coarsening - Basics and Growth Laws; title: Ostwald Ripening - Wagner Analysis; title: Ostwald Ripening - Marqusee and Ross Type Analysis; title: Multiparticle Diffusion Analysis; title: Nucleation, Growth and Coarsening; title: Appendex: Droplet and Particle Motion; title: Nucleation.