Transient coarsening behaviour in the Cahn-Hilliard model

Acta Materialia

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2823-2830

  Garcke, Harald ^a   Niethammer, Barbara ^b   Rumpf, Martin ^c   Weikard, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard equation; Finite element approximation; Fourth order parabolic equation; Second order time discretization

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; NUCLEATION; PHASE SEPARATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

COARSENING;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 0038824235     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-6454(03)00087-9     Document Type: Article

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