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  • News IAU2018 Focus meeting:Nano Dust in Space (2018 Aug.)
  • Molecular dynamics simulations of nucleation of water droplets from vapor

     Research topic

    Nucleation, in which liquid droplets form from saturated vapor, is an important research subject that spans a wide range of science and engineering fields, including meteorology (formation of cloud particles) and engineering (formation of nanoparticles). However, condensation nuclei that initially form are the extremely small size of nanoparticles, so it is difficult to predict their rate of formation with good accuracy. We perform numerical experiments of the transition, through molecular dynamics simulations. Movies

    My research interests are (1) theory of non-equilirium condensation, nucleation, and crystallization, (2) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of droplet nucleation, bubble nucleation, and crystallization, and (3) evolutions of dust particles including nucleation, growth, and crystallization processes in the astrophysical environments (Non-equilibrium Condensation of Cosmic Dusts, Crystallization of Amorphous Silicate in Astrophysical Environments, Thermal Evolution of Dusts in Protoplanetary disks, ..)

    Publications

    Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University,  Kyoko K. Tanaka (Ph. D.)
    〒980-8578 Sendai, Japan 8

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