Phase Field Crystals

Download or read book Phase-Field Crystals written by Peter Galenko and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phase Field Crystal (PFC) model incorporates microscopic structural details into a mesoscopic continuum theory. Methods for fast propagation of PFC interfaces are discussed in this book. They can handle a wide range of thermal gradients, supersaturations and supercoolings, including applications such as selective laser melting. The reader will find theoretical treatment in the first half, while the latter half discusses numerical models.