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Growth of Sulfuric Acid Nanoparticles at Wet and Dry Conditions
Škrabalová, Lenka ; Brus, D. ; Ždímal, Vladimír ; Lihavainen, H.
Aerosol particles influence global radiative balance and climate directly through scattering and absorbing solar radiation and indirectly by acting as condensation cloud nuclei. The atmospheric nucleation is often followed by a rapid growth of freshly formed particles. The initial growth of aerosol is the crucial process determining the fraction of nucleated particles growing into cloud condensation nuclei sizes (~ 50 nm and larger). Many recent studies have suggested that the sulfuric acid plays a key role in the atmospheric nucleation and subsequent growth of newly formed particles. (Sipilä et al., 2010). The subject of this experimental study is growth behaviour of sulfuric acid nanoparticles produced by homogenous nucleation at wet and dry conditions.
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EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS FOR MEASUREMENT OF DENSITY OF SUPERCOOLED WATER AT HIGH PRESSURE
Hrubý, Jan ; Hykl, Jiří ; Peukert, Pavel ; Šmíd, Bohuslav
Thermodynamic behavior of supercooled water (metastable fluid water existing transiently below the equilibrium freezing point) at high pressures was subject to many recent theoretical studies. Some of them assume that a second critical point of water exists, related to two liquid phases of supercooled water: the low-density liquid and the high-density liquid. To test these theories, an original experimental cryogenic apparatus is being developed. The volume changes are measured optically in custom-treated fused-silica capillary tubes. The capillaries are placed in a metal vessel designed for pressures up to 200 MPa. The vessel is connected to a circulation thermostat enabling a rapid change of temperature to prevent freezing. A new high-vacuum device was developed for degassing of the ultrapure water sample and filling it into the measuring capillaries. The experiments will contribute to fundamental understanding of the anomalous behavior of water and to applications in meteorology, aerospace engineering, cryobiology etc.
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A computationally efficient and accurate numerical representation of thermodynamic properties of steam condensing steam flow in steam turbines
Hrubý, Jan
Mathematical modeling of the non-equilibrium condensing transonic steam flow in the complex 3D geometry of a steam turbine is a demanding problem both concerning the physical concepts and the required computational power. Available accurate formulations of steam properties IAPWS-95 and IAPWS-IF97 require much computation time. For this reason, the modelers often accept the unrealistic ideal-gas behavior. Here we present a computation scheme based on a piecewise, thermodynamically consistent representation of the IAPWS-95 formulation. Density and internal energy are chosen as independent variables to avoid variable transformations and iterations. On the contrary to the previous Tabular Taylor Series Expansion Method, the pressure and temperature are continuous functions of the independent variables, which is a desirable property for the solution of the differential equations of the mass, energy, and momentum conservation for both phases.
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Influence of Size Effects on Homogeneous Nucleation Inside Nanoparticles
Levdansky, V.V. ; Smolík, Jiří ; Ždímal, Vladimír ; Moravec, Pavel
It is known that many physicochemical processes in aerosol systems with nanoscale particles and in nanoparticles themselves depend on the particle size. The influence of size dependence of the condensation coefficient on gas-phase nucleation was discussed in (Levdansky et al., 2010). Some problems related to nucleation in confined space, in particular the depletion effect of the ambient phase, were considered in (Kožíšek et al., 2011; Schmelzer and Abyzov, 2011). Here we study the size effects in homogeneous nucleation inside nanoparticles related to size dependence of the effective rate constant for the attachment of monomers to the critical cluster.
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Droplet and Bubble Nucleation Modeled by Density Gradient Theory - Cubic Equation of State versus SAFT Model
Vinš, Václav ; Hrubý, Jan ; Planková, Barbora
The study presents some preliminary results of the density gradient theory (GT) combined with two different equations of state (EoS): the classical cubic equation by van der Waals and a recent approach based on the statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT), namely its perturbed-chain (PC) modification. It has been shown that PC-SAFT is a promising tool for accurate modeling of nucleation using the GT. Besides the basic case of a planar phase interface, the spherical interface was analyzed to model a critical cluster occurring either for nucleation of droplets (condensation) or bubbles (boiling, cavitation).
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The Temperature Dependence of Homogeneous Nucleation Rates by the Gradient Theory
Hrubý, Jan
We demonstrate that the incorrect temperature dependence of the nucleation rates as predicted by the classical nucleation theory is likely a consequence of the ignored dependence of the surface tension on the radius of the droplet parameterized here as a quadratic function of the pressure difference between the gas and liquid phases of the critical cluster. The size-dependent surface tension is obtained using a simplified gradient theory.
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