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MM: Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik

MM 23: Topical Session Heterogeneous Nucleation and Initial Evolution of Microstructure - Poster

MM 23.1: Poster

Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 14:45–16:30, P4

Scale-bridging phase-field simulations of microstructure responses on nucleation in metals and colloids — •Denis Danilov and Britta Nestler — Institute of Computational Engineering, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Phase-field simulations from atomic to mesoscopic length scales are used to analyse the microstructure responses on heterogeneous nucleation, both in metallic as well as in colloidal systems. The scale-bridging from 1 nm to 10 µm in metals is achieved either by combining Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Phase-field (PF) simulations or by hybrid PF modelling. Essential for three dimensional numerical computations is the employment of performance optimized simulation techniques and adaptive multigrid methods. The microstructure responses on the parameter sets, on the shape of the nuclei and on the characteristic properties of the substrate are systematically investigated in PF simulations. Large-scale simulations of microstructure formations are compared with experimental observations.