The molecular dynamic simulation was performed on the homogenous nucleation of argon vapor
and the nucleation rate was calculated by classic nucleation theory(CNT)
mean first-passage times(MFPT)
and cluster theory
respectively. The simulation results show that under the same simulation condition
the nucleation rates calculated by the MFPT and the cluster theory are of the same order of magnitude
and are of three orders of magnitude higher than those calculated by the CNT theory because of the equilibrium thermodynamics assumption with the CNT theory. Moreover
the critical cluster number of homogenous nucleation for the three methods is close to 20. In addition
from the cluster theory analysis
the nucleation rate increases with the increase in the cooling rate
which agrees well with practical homogeneous nucleation.
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