A Level-Set Method for Simulating Island Coarsening

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 104-122

  Chopp, D L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ADATOMS; COARSENING; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEPOSITION; DROP BREAKUP; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADATOM MIGRATION; ATOM DIFFUSION; COARSENINGS; CONTINUUM MODEL; EDGE-ATOMS; ENERGY SURFACE; LEVEL SET METHOD; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; STEP-EDGE; THIN-FILM DEPOSITIONS;

SURFACE DIFFUSION;

EID: 0007865551     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6527     Document Type: Article

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