On the time-development of the liquid-vapor phase transition in an expanding nuclear system

1984
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 147 (1984) 17-22
  • Published: 1984

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The initial conditions for compression and heating for the formation of a two-phase nuclear system are studied utilizing a hydrodynamical model description of the expanding hot nuclear fluid. It is found that in the case of relatively low initial compression and temperatures below T = 10 MeV the system remains comparatively long in the metastable phase but a phase separation is not very likely. The system disassembles if a dynamical instability develops.