A level set approach to domain wall kinetics and domain patterning in elastic ferroelectrics

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 199, Issue 45-48, 2010, Pages 2865-2875

  Kalpakides, V K ^a   Arvanitakis, A I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Elastic ferroelectrics; Level set method; Material forces

Indexed keywords

AS INTERFACES; DOMAIN FORMATION; DOMAIN PATTERNING; DOMAIN WALL MOTION; ELASTIC FERROELECTRICS; ENERGY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; INHOMOGENEITIES; LEVEL SET APPROACH; LEVEL SET METHOD; MATERIAL FORCES; MOVING INTERFACE; PHASE-FIELD MODELS; SINGULAR SURFACES; TETRAGONAL CRYSTALS; TRANSITION LAYERS; VARIATIONAL LEVEL SET;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; DROP BREAKUP; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 78549262651     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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