Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 79, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.014204
Keywords
copper alloys; fluctuations; interface phenomena; melting; nickel alloys; nucleation; solidification; wetting
Funding
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences [OTKA-K-62588]
- ESA PECS [98043, 98056]
- EU [NMP3-CT-2004-500635]
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We extend the phase field model of heterogeneous crystal nucleation developed recently [L. Granasy , Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 035703 (2007)] to binary alloys. Three approaches are considered to incorporate foreign walls of tunable wetting properties into phase field simulations: a continuum realization of the classical spherical cap model (called model A herein), a nonclassical approach (model B) that leads to ordering of the liquid at the wall and to the appearance of a surface spinodal, and a nonclassical model (model C) that allows for the appearance of local states at the wall that are accessible in the bulk phases only via thermal fluctuations. We illustrate the potential of the presented phase field methods for describing complex polycrystalline solidification morphologies including the shish-kebab structure, columnar to equiaxed transition, and front-particle interaction in binary alloys.
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