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Solidification and crystal growth phenomena

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of phase-field models to study microstructure evolution, solidification, crystal growth, and elasticity in materials science. It covers topics such as diffuse interface methods for simulating complex fluids, modeling of multicomponent alloys, dendritic growth, and thermodynamically consistent numerical simulations.

46K works worldwide617.9K citations

Phase-Field ModelsSolidificationMicrostructure EvolutionCrystal GrowthDiffuse Interface MethodElasticityMulticomponent AlloysDendritic GrowthThermodynamic ConsistencyNumerical Simulation

Journals publishing in this area

Journal of Crystal Growth

ISSN 0022-02484,249 articles in this topic

204h-index

1.98Impact

41.6KArticles

860KCitations

Acta Materialia

ISSN 1359-64541,210 articles in this topic

409h-index

8.08Impact

21.2KArticles

1.6MCitations

Acta Metallurgica

ISSN 0001-6160398 articles in this topic

286h-index

7.5KArticles

511.4KCitations