A fully implicit, fully adaptive time and space discretisation method for phase-field simulation of binary alloy solidification

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1271-1287

  Rosam, J ^a   Jimack, P K ^a   Mullis, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binary alloys; Fully implicit method; Mesh adaptivity; Nonlinear multigrid; Phase field simulation; Variable time step control

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLIDIFICATION;

DISCRETIZATION METHOD; FULLY IMPLICIT METHODS; MESH ADAPTIVITY; NONLINEAR MULTIGRID; PHASE-FIELD SIMULATION; SPACE DISCRETIZATIONS; TIME DISCRETIZATION; TIME-STEP-CONTROL; VARIABLE TIME STEP CONTROL; VARIABLE TIME-STEP;

BINARY ALLOYS;

EID: 34547516043     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.01.027     Document Type: Article

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