MONTE CARLO TYPE INVESTIGATIONS ON THE NUCLEATION PROCESSES IN SOFT MATTER SYSTEMS

Using Monte Carlo simulations, we investigated the sporadic nucleation of polymers and the results were compared with those obtained from the Avrami equation. From the simulation data, we calculated the overall crystallization rate constants and the Avrami indices. We considered isotropic growth of the nuclei in 1,2 and 3 dimension, the obtained results for the Avrami indices being in excellent agreement with theory and experiments. We also investigated the dependence of the overall crystallization rate constant on the crystallization velocity.