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Abstract
A generalized treatment of diffusive transport between an assemblage of growing droplets and a surrounding supersaturated medium is presented. The analysis is applied to an array containing a finite number of symmetrically arranged monodisperse droplets, and analytical expressions are obtained for the transient supersaturation and growth rate of each droplet in the array as functions of the separation distance between droplets and number of interacting droplets. The average nucleation rate in the region surrounding the droplets is calculated from the solution of the supersaturation field. The interparticle interactions are shown to depend on the size, number density, and position of the droplet and to retard the nucleation and growth rates.