From classical thermodynamics to phase-field method

LQ Chen, Y Zhao - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Phase-field method is a density-based computational method at the mesoscale for modeling
and predicting the temporal microstructure and property evolution during materials …

A phase-field model for evolving microstructures with strong elastic inhomogeneity

SY Hu, LQ Chen - Acta materialia, 2001 - Elsevier
An efficient phase-field model is proposed to study the coherent microstructure evolution in
elastically anisotropic systems with significant elastic modulus inhomogeneity. It combines …

Phase-field modeling of microstructure evolutions in magnetic materials

T Koyama - Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, the phase-field method has been extended and utilized across many fields of
materials science. Since this method can incorporate, systematically, the effect of the …

Modeling of phase separation in alloys with coherent elastic misfit

P Fratzl, O Penrose, JL Lebowitz - Journal of Statistical Physics, 1999 - Springer
Elastic interactions arising from a difference of lattice spacing between two coherent phases
can have a strong influence on the phase separation (coarsening) behavior of alloys. If the …

Solute segregation and coherent nucleation and growth near a dislocation—a phase-field model integrating defect and phase microstructures

SY Hu, LQ Chen - Acta materialia, 2001 - Elsevier
A diffuse-interface field model is proposed for describing diffusional processes in coherent
systems with arbitrary microstructures and arbitrary spatial distribution of structural defects …

Phase field microelasticity theory and modeling of elastically and structurally inhomogeneous solid

YU Wang, YM **, AG Khachaturyan - Journal of Applied Physics, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
The phase field microelasticity theory of a three-dimensional elastically anisotropic solid of
arbitrarily inhomogeneous modulus also containing arbitrary structural inhomogeneities is …

Spatiotemporal prediction of microstructure evolution with predictive recurrent neural network

AAK Farizhandi, M Mamivand - Computational Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Prediction of microstructure evolution during material processing is essential to control the
material properties. Simulation tools for microstructure evolution prediction based on …

Computer simulation of spinodal decomposition in constrained films

DJ Seol, SY Hu, YL Li, J Shen, KH Oh, LQ Chen - Acta materialia, 2003 - Elsevier
The morphological evolution during spinodal decomposition of a binary alloy thin film
elastically constrained by a substrate is studied. Elastic solutions, derived for elastically …

Morphological evolution during phase separation and coarsening with strong inhomogeneous elasticity

J Zhu, LQ Chen, J Shen - Modelling and Simulation in Materials …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We studied the morphological evolution during spinodal phase separation and subsequent
coarsening in systems with a strong dependence of elastic constants on the composition. An …

A study of the coarsening in tin/lead solders

W Dreyer, WH Mueller - International Journal of solids and structures, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper presents a model, which is capable to simulate the coarsening process observed
during thermo-mechanical treatment of binary tin–lead solders. Fourier transforms and …