Thermodynamics of mantle minerals-II. Phase equilibria

L Stixrude, C Lithgow-Bertelloni - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We complete the development and description of a thermodynamic method for the
computation of phase equilibria and physical properties of multiphase mantle assemblages …

Density profiles of oceanic slabs and surrounding mantle: Integrated thermodynamic and thermal modeling, and implications for the fate of slabs at the 660 km …

J Ganguly, AM Freed, SK Saxena - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2009 - Elsevier
We have calculated the mineralogical properties of the Earth's mantle and the lithological
units constituting the subducting oceanic slabs within a wide range of P–T conditions within …

Thermodynamic properties of MgSiO3 majorite and phase transitions near 660 km depth in MgSiO3 and Mg2SiO4: A first principles study

YG Yu, RM Wentzcovitch, VL Vinograd… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Thermodynamic properties of MgSiO3 tetragonal majorite have been calculated at high
pressures and temperatures within the quasi‐harmonic approximation based on density …

Incorporation of Y and REEs in aluminosilicate garnet: Energetics from atomistic simulation

WD Carlson, JD Gale, K Wright - American Mineralogist, 2014 - degruyter.com
Yttrium and the rare-earth elements (Y+ REEs) are incorporated into aluminosilicate garnet
as trivalent ions replacing divalent Mg, Fe, Mn, or Ca (“M2+”) in dodecahedral sites, which …

Optimization of chemical ordering in AgAu nanoalloys

M Cerbelaud, R Ferrando, G Barcaro… - Physical Chemistry …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The determination of optimal chemical ordering in nanoalloys, ie of the most stable pattern in
which atoms are arranged in bi-or multicomponent metallic clusters, is quite complex due to …

An efficient cluster expansion method for binary solid solutions: Application to the halite-silvite, NaCl-KCl, system

V Vinograd, B Winkler - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The system NaCl-KCl is used as an example to introduce the reader to a variety of
concepts, which form the modern solid solution theory. The chapter starts with the discussion …

Subsolidus phase relations in the system predicted from the excess enthalpies of supercell structures with single and double defects

VL Vinograd, MHF Sluiter, B Winkler - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2009 - APS
The thermodynamic mixing properties of a binary (A x B 1− x) R solid solution are evaluated
from the enthalpies of supercell structures A m− 2 B 2 R m and B m− 2 A 2 R m, where m is …

Thermodynamics of mixing in pyrope-grossular, Mg3Al2Si3O12-Ca3Al2Si3O12, solid solution from lattice dynamics calculations and Monte Carlo simulations

VL Vinograd, MHF Sluiter - American Mineralogist, 2006 - degruyter.com
Static lattice energy calculations (SLEC), based on empirical pair potentials have been
performed for a set of 125 different structures with compositions between pyrope and …

Activity–composition relations in the system CaCO3–MgCO3 predicted from static structure energy calculations and Monte Carlo simulations

VL Vinograd, BP Burton, JD Gale, NL Allan… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2007 - Elsevier
Thermodynamic mixing properties and subsolidus phase relations of the rhombohedral
carbonate system,(1− x)· CaCO3− x· MgCO3, were modelled in the temperature range of …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Industrial applications of molecular simulations

M Meunier - 2011 - books.google.com
The field of quantum and molecular simulations has experienced strong growth since the
time of the early software packages. A recent study, showed a large increase in the number …