Simultaneous prediction of morphologies of a critical nucleus and an equilibrium precipitate in solids

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 674-682

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Chen, Long Qing ^a   Du, Qiang ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained string method; Critical nucleus; Diffuse interface; Elasticity; Nucleation; Phase field

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949829111     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.2009.09.099     Document Type: Article

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