Computational Materials Science Group

László Gránásy^1,2

¹Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, P.O. Box 49, Budapest H-1525, Hungary
²BCAST, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom

A simple phenomenological treatment has been proposed to model the nucleation transient under non-isothermal conditions. It is demonstrated that the method can predict the critical quenching rate of glass formation for various substances.