Numerical Simulation of Grain-Boundary Grooving by Level Set Method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 764-784

  Khenner, M ^a   Averbuch, A ^a   Israeli, M ^b   Nathan, M ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROP BREAKUP; ELECTROMIGRATION; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

AVERAGE ORIENTATION; CURVATURE GRADIENTS; GRAIN BOUNDARY GROOVING; GRAIN-BOUNDARIES; LEVEL SET METHOD; MULLINS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; POLYCRYSTALLINE; SURFACE CURVATURES;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

EID: 0005667045     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6760     Document Type: Article

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