Suppression of cavitation-induced nucleation in systems under isochoric confinement

Abstract

This work explores the effects of constant volume confinement on cavitation-induced ice nucleation by marrying fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and nucleation kinetics into a single approach. The authors find that confinement at even macroscopic volumes can suppress cavitation-induced nucleation from single microscale bubbles, suggesting that macroscale confinement may provide an effective method of suppressing this nucleation pathway in supercooled aqueous systems.

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