1206.6705 (Johannes Blaschke et al.)

Breath Figures: Nucleation, Growth, Coalescence, and the Size
Distribution of Droplets    [PDF]

Johannes Blaschke, Tobias Lapp, Björn Hof, Jürgen Vollmer

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.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6705