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Rapid solidification experiments on thin film aluminum samples reveal the presence of lattice orientation gradients within crystallizing grains. To study this phenomenon, a single-component phase-field crystal (PFC) model that captures the…

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are essential for analyzing and optimizing fluid flows in a wide range of real-world applications. These simulations involve approximating the solutions of the Navier-Stokes differential…

We apply a simple dynamical density functional theory, the phase-field crystal (PFC) model of overdamped conservative dynamics, to address polymorphism, crystal nucleation, and crystal growth in the diffusion-controlled limit. We refine the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Gyula I. Tóth , György Tegze , Tamás Pusztai , László Gránásy

We present a MATLAB-based framework for two- and three-dimensional fast Fourier transforms on multiple GPUs for large-scale numerical simulations using the pseudo-spectral Fourier method. The software implements two complementary multi-GPU…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Maik Punke , Marco Salvalaglio

The fully connected conditional random field (CRF) with Gaussian pairwise potentials has proven popular and effective for multi-class semantic segmentation. While the energy of a dense CRF can be minimized accurately using a linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Alban Desmaison , Rudy Bunel , Mathieu Salzmann , Philip H. S. Torr , M. Pawan Kumar

A modified phase field crystal model in which the free energy may be minimised by an order parameter profile having isolated bumps is investigated. The phase diagram is calculated in one and two dimensions and we locate the regions where…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-31 Mark J. Robbins , Andrew J. Archer , Uwe Thiele , Edgar Knobloch

The phase field crystal (PFC) method is an efficient technique for simulating the evolution of crystalline microstructures at atomistic length scales and diffusive time scales. Due to the high-order derivatives (sixth-order) and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Xiaoli Li , Kaiyi Niu , Jiang Yang

Particle filters are computational techniques for estimating the state of dynamical systems by integrating observational data with model predictions. This work introduces a class of Localized Particle Filters (LPFs) that exploit spatial…

Applications · Statistics 2025-07-10 Dan Crisan , Eliana Fausti

Achieving optimal rates for stochastic composite convex optimization without prior knowledge of problem parameters remains a central challenge. In the deterministic setting, the auto-conditioned fast gradient method has recently been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Yao Ji , Guanghui Lan

We propose an SDP-based framework to address the stabilization of input delay systems while taking into account dissipative constraints. A key to our approach is the introduction of the concept of parameterized linear dynamical state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Qian Feng , Cong Zhang , Bo Wei

This article focuses on the development of high-order energy stable schemes for the multi-length-scale incommensurate phase-field crystal model which is able to study the phase behavior of aperiodic structures. These high-order schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Kai Jiang , Wei Si

This article focuses on the development of high-order energy stable schemes for the multi-length-scale incommensurate phase-field crystal model which is able to study the phase behavior of aperiodic structures. These high-order schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Kai Jiang , Wei Si

The phase-field-crystal (PFC) modeling paradigm is rapidly emerging as the model of choice when investigating materials phenomena with atomistic scale effects over diffusive time scales. Recent variants of the PFC model, so-called…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Nana Ofori-Opoku , Jonathan Stolle , Zhi-Feng Huang , Nikolas Provatas

The $L^2$ gradient flow of the Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional leads to the Allen Cahn equation that is widely used for modeling phase separation. Machine learning methods for solving the Allen-Cahn equation in its strong form suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Revanth Mattey , Susanta Ghosh

The phase-field model (PFM) represents the crack geometry in a diffusive way without introducing sharp discontinuities. This feature enables PFM to effectively model crack propagation compared with numerical methods based on discrete crack…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Shuwei Zhou , Timon Rabczuk , Xiaoying Zhuang

We introduce a new variational approach to the stationary state of kinetic Ising-like models. The approach is based on the cluster expansion of the entropy term appearing in a functional which is minimized by the system history. We rederive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-26 Alessandro Pelizzola

Material properties controlled by evolving defect structures, such as mechanical response, often involve processes spanning many length and time scales which cannot be modeled using a single approach. We present a variety of new results…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Joel Berry , Nikolas Provatas , Jörg Rottler , Chad W. Sinclair

The conserved Swift-Hohenberg equation (or Phase-Field-Crystal [PFC] model) provides a simple microscopic description of the thermodynamic transition between fluid and crystalline states. Combining it with elements of the Toner-Tu theory…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-09-18 Lukas Ophaus , Svetlana V. Gurevich , Uwe Thiele

This paper introduces an adaptive time splitting technique for the solution of stiff evolutionary PDEs that guarantees an effective error control of the simulation, independent of the fastest physical time scale for highly unsteady…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Stéphane Descombes , Max Duarte , Thierry Dumont , Violaine Louvet , Marc Massot

In this paper we describe a new model for solidification with heat flux using the phase field crystal (PFC) framework. The equations are thermodynamically consistent, in the sense that the time rate of change of the entropy density is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-13 C. Wang , S. M. Wise