Nanoparticle shape, thermodynamics and kinetics

LD Marks, L Peng - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanoparticles can be beautiful, as in stained glass windows, or they can be ugly as in wear
and corrosion debris from implants. We estimate that there will be about 70 000 papers in …

Phase-field models for microstructure evolution

LQ Chen - Annual review of materials research, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The phase-field method has recently emerged as a powerful computational
approach to modeling and predicting mesoscale morphological and microstructure evolution …

Phase field modeling of fracture in anisotropic brittle solids

S Teichtmeister, D Kienle, F Aldakheel… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
A phase field model of fracture that accounts for anisotropic material behavior at small and
large deformations is outlined within this work. Most existing fracture phase field models …

The development of grain structure during additive manufacturing

AF Chadwick, PW Voorhees - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing of structural alloys results in the formation of complex
microstructures, often with long, columnar grains that grow epitaxially from existing grains. A …

An introduction to phase-field modeling of microstructure evolution

N Moelans, B Blanpain, P Wollants - Calphad, 2008 - Elsevier
The phase-field method has become an important and extremely versatile technique for
simulating microstructure evolution at the mesoscale. Thanks to the diffuse-interface …

Solidification microstructures and solid-state parallels: Recent developments, future directions

M Asta, C Beckermann, A Karma, W Kurz, R Napolitano… - Acta Materialia, 2009 - Elsevier
Rapid advances in atomistic and phase-field modeling techniques as well as new
experiments have led to major progress in solidification science during the first years of this …

Growth and form of spherulites

L Gránásy, T Pusztai, G Tegze, JA Warren… - Physical Review E …, 2005 - APS
Many structural materials (metal alloys, polymers, minerals, etc.) are formed by quenching
liquids into crystalline solids. This highly nonequilibrium process often leads to …

Quantitative analysis of grain boundary properties in a generalized phase field model for grain growth in anisotropic systems

N Moelans, B Blanpain, P Wollants - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2008 - APS
A good choice of model formulation and model parameters is one of the most important and
difficult aspects in mesoscale modeling and requires a systematic and quantitative analysis …

Phase‐field modeling and simulation of fracture in brittle materials with strongly anisotropic surface energy

B Li, C Peco, D Millán, I Arias… - International Journal for …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Crack propagation in brittle materials with anisotropic surface energy is important in
applications involving single crystals, extruded polymers, or geological and organic …

Conservative multigrid methods for Cahn–Hilliard fluids

J Kim, K Kang, J Lowengrub - Journal of Computational Physics, 2004 - Elsevier
We develop a conservative, second-order accurate fully implicit discretization of the Navier–
Stokes (NS) and Cahn–Hilliard (CH) system that has an associated discrete energy …