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Breath Figures: Nucleation, Growth, Coalescence, and the Size Distribution of Droplets (1206.6705v1)
Published 28 Jun 2012 in cond-mat.stat-mech and cond-mat.soft
Abstract: The analysis of the size distribution of droplets condensing on a substrate (breath figures) is a test ground for scaling theories. Here, we show that a faithful description of these distributions must explicitly deal with the growth mechanisms of the droplets. This finding establishes a gateway connecting nucleation and growth of the smallest droplets on surfaces to gross features of the evolution of the droplet size distribution.