Thermodynamics with two dividing surfaces is used to investigate the quasi-liquid layer on a crystal surface by regarding it as a thin liquid layer. The following thermodynamic quantities: chemical potential, vapour pressure, pressure tensor components and disjoining pressure of the layer are considered and relations between them are derived. The dependences of these quantities on the layer thi...

While gas discharges under atmospheric pressure occur as filamentary discharges, most studies on plasma polymerization, or plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD), were carried out in low-pressure (low temperature, non-equilibrium) plasma. However, it is reasonable to assume that the fundamentals of plasma polymerization found by low-pressure discharge apply to the gas phase in the filamentary ...

We propose a compressible multi-scale model that (i) captures the dynamics of both large vapour cavities (resolved vapour) and micro-bubbles (unresolved vapour), (ii) accounts for medium compressibility. The mass, momentum energy in homogeneous mixture equations are explicitly decomposed into constituent resolved unresolved components independently treated. liquid is tracked as continuum an Eul...

We report on thermodynamic and optical measurements of the condensation process of He in three silica aerogels of different microstructures. For the two base-catalysed aerogels, the temperature dependence of the shape of adsorption isotherms and of the morphology of the condensation process show evidence of a disorder driven transition, in agreement with recent theoretical predictions. This tra...

We report on thermodynamic and optical measurements of the condensation process of He in three silica aerogels of different microstructures. For the two base-catalysed aerogels, the temperature dependence of the shape of adsorption isotherms and of the morphology of the condensation process show evidence of a disorder driven transition, in agreement with recent theoretical predictions. This tra...