Lifshitz Slyozov- Wagner LSW Theory

This process was first recognized by Ostwald and is known as Ostwald ripening. The mathematical details were worked out independently by Lifshitz and Slyozov and by Wagner ° and is known as the LSW theory. However, this theory is based on a mean field approximation and is restricted to low volume fraction systems. Voorhees and coworkers extended the LSW theory to finite volume fraction systems and conducted a series of flight experiments designed to test this and similar theories. ... 

The basic theory of Ostwald ripening was developed independently by Greenwood (4), Wagner (5), and Lifshitz and Slyozov (6). It is often referred to as the LSW theory. The idealized system considered in the LSW theory is required to satisfy three conditions during the coarsening process ... 

In 1961, Lifshitz, Slyozov, and Wagner [31] (LSW) performed a mathematical investigation of Ostwald ripening in the case where diffusion of solute particles is the slowest rate-determining process (famously known as the LSW theory). The derivation first states how a cluster grows in a supersaturated solution. This theory assumes the coarsening phase as noninteracting, spherical, and fixed in space. 

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