Thermal and fluctuation effects of nonisothermal nucleation in the supercritical region of nucleating center sizes

By considering the possible deviations of the parameters of the quasistationary distribution of the nucleating centers of the condensed phase from their values in equilibrium with a vapor–gas medium we have obtained a form of expression of the Zel'dovich–Frenkel' balance equation that has made it possible to establish a hierarchy of time scales of the nucleation process, study tbe stage of thermal relaxation of the two-dimensional distribution of the nucleating centers, and construct a solution for that distribution at the end of the stage of thermal relaxation in the supercritical region of nucleating center sizes.