# Article

Short Communications
2019. V. 57. № 2. P. 275–278
Korenchenko A.E., Vorontsov A.G., Gel'chinskiy B.R., Zhukova A.A.
Determination of small copper clusters based on simulation of the process of gas phase condensation
Annotation
A molecular dynamics study was carried out on the dependence of the radii of small metal clusters that form in the process of gas-phase copper condensation on the number of atoms in them. The radii are calculated with the molecular-kinetic theory formulas from molecular-dynamic simulating data on the number of collisions between clusters. It was found that the dependence of the radii on the number of particles has a form close to the classical $n^{1/3}$. However, the average cluster radii are about $40\%$ larger than the case in which the cluster is considered a drop of a bulk fluid.
Article reference:
Korenchenko A.E., Vorontsov A.G., Gel'chinskiy B.R., Zhukova A.A. Determination of small copper clusters based on simulation of the process of gas phase condensation, High Temp., 2019. V. 57. № 2. P. 275