Vapour-liquid phase transition and metastability

The paper deals with the modelling of the relaxation processes towards thermodynamic equilibrium in a liquid-vapour isothermal mixture. Focusing on the van der Waals equation of state, we construct a constrained optimization problem using Gibbs' formalism and characterize all possible equilibri...

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Main Authors: Ghazi Hala, James Francois, Mathis Hélène
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2019-01-01
Series:ESAIM: Proceedings and Surveys
Online Access:https://www.esaim-proc.org/articles/proc/pdf/2019/02/proc196602.pdf