Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10728653 | Physics Letters A | 2014 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The evolution of a system of growing aggregates in a macroscopically homogeneous medium with account of both the reduction in metastability and the continuing initiation of new nuclei is studied. The corresponding integro-differential model describing the intermediate stage of phase transitions is solved analytically for arbitrary nucleation kinetics and growth rates of nuclei. An exact solution of the Fokker-Planck equation is found with allowance for the diffusivity along the axis of nucleus radii. In limiting cases of purely kinetic and mixed kinetic-diffusion rates of crystal growth for a special form of diffusivity, the obtained solutions transform to earlier known expressions.
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Authors
D.V. Alexandrov,