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We describe here in detail the recently introduced methodology for simulation of structural transitions in crystals. The applications of the new scheme are illustrated on various kinds of crystals and the advantages with respect to previous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Martonak , A. Laio , M. Bernasconi , C. Ceriani , P. Raiteri , M. Parrinello

The dynamics of phase field crystal (PFC) modeling is derived from dynamical density functional theory (DDFT), for both single-component and binary systems. The derivation is based on a truncation up to the three-point direct correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhi-Feng Huang , K. R. Elder , Nikolas Provatas

Modeling phase change problems numerically is vital for understanding many natural (e.g., ice formation, steam generation) and engineering processes (e.g., casting, welding, additive manufacturing). Almost all phase change materials (PCMs)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-18 Ramakrishnan Thirumalaisamy , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

We propose a variant of the $\theta$-scheme for diffuse interface models for two-phase flow, together with three new linearization techniques for the surface tension. These involve either additional stabilizing force terms, or a fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Sebastian Aland

We employ adaptive mesh refinement, implicit time stepping, a nonlinear multigrid solver and parallel computation, to solve a multi-scale, time dependent, three dimensional, nonlinear set of coupled partial differential equations for three…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. C. Bollada , C. E. Goodyer , P. K. Jimack , A. M. Mullis , F. W. Yang

In this paper, we consider issues relative to prescribed time stabilisation of a chain of integrators of arbitrary length, either pure (i.e., where there is no disturbance) or perturbed. In a first part, we revisit the proportional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Yacine Chitour , Rosane Ushirobira

Clock synchronization is a widely discussed topic in the engineering literature. Ensuring that individual clocks are closely aligned is important in network systems, since the correct timing of various events in a network is usually…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Timothy Anglea , Yongqiang Wang

We consider a non-isothermal multi-phase field model. We subsequently discretize implicitly in time and with linear finite elements. The arising algebraic problem is formulated in two variables where one is the multi-phase field, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Carsten Gräser , Max Kahnt , Ralf Kornhuber

Microstructures forming during ternary eutectic directional solidification processes have significant influence on the macroscopic mechanical properties of metal alloys. For a realistic simulation, we use the well established…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Martin Bauer , Johannes Hötzer , Philipp Steinmetz , Marcus Jainta , Marco Berghoff , Florian Schornbaum , Christian Godenschwager , Harald Köstler , Britta Nestler , Ulrich Rüde

This paper proposes an efficient method for the calculation of the stabilization parameters in RF power amplifiers operating in periodic large-signal regimes. Stabilization is achieved by applying the principles of linear control theory for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Libe Mori , Ibone Lizarraga , Aitziber Anakabe , Juan-Mari Collantes , Vincent Armengaud , Geoffroy Soubercaze-Pun

This paper establishes the convergence of a time-steeping scheme for time fractional diffusion problems with nonsmooth data. We first analyze the regularity of the model problem with nonsmooth data, and then prove that the time-steeping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Binjie Li , Hao Luo , Xiaoping Xie

Dendritic growth, and the formation of material microstructure in general, necessarily involves a wide range of length scales from the atomic up to sample dimensions. The phase field approach of Langer, enhanced by optimal asymptotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Nigel Goldenfeld , Badrinarayan P. Athreya , Jonathan A. Dantzig

The search for effective methods to fabricate bulk single-phase quasicrystalline Al-Cu-Fe alloys is currently an important task. Crucial to solving this problem is to understand mechanisms of phase formation in this system. Here we study…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 L. V. Kamaeva , I. V. Sterkhova , V. I. Ladyanov , R. E. Ryltsev , N. M. Chtchelkatchev

This study presents an efficient, accurate, effective and unconditionally stable time stepping scheme for the Darcy-Brinkman equations in double-diffusive convection. The stabilization within the proposed method uses the idea of stabilizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Aytekin Çıbık , Medine Demir , Songul Kaya

Despite being forbidden in equilibrium, spontaneous breaking of time translation symmetry can occur in periodically driven, Floquet systems with discrete time-translation symmetry. The period of the resulting discrete time crystal is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-06-21 Norman Y. Yao , Andrew C. Potter , Ionut-Dragos Potirniche , Ashvin Vishwanath

Recent results in the literature provide computational evidence that stabilized semi-implicit time-stepping method can efficiently simulate phase field problems involving fourth-order nonlinear dif- fusion, with typical examples like the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Dong Li , Zhonghua Qiao , Tao Tang

In this study, we investigate the dynamics of dispersive photonic time crystals (PTCs) and their potential applications for controlling light-matter interaction. By employing the Lorentz-Drude model, we analyze theoretically and via…

A phase-field model for three-phase flows is established by combining the Navier-Stokes (NS) and the energy equations, with the Allen-Cahn (AC) and Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equations and is demonstrated analytically to satisfy the energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Zhihua Wang , Lijing Zhou , Wenqiang Zhang , Xiaorong Wang , Shuguang Li , Xuerui Mao

We show the emergence of Floquet time crystal (FTC) phases in the Floquet dynamics of periodically driven $p$-spin models, which describe a collection of spin-1/2 particles with all-to-all $p$-body interactions. Given the mean-field nature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Manuel H. Muñoz-Arias , Karthik Chinni , Pablo M. Poggi

We introduce a Phase Field Crystal (PFC) model for particles with n-fold rotational symmetry in two dimensions. Our approach is based on a free energy functional that depends on the reduced one-particle density, the strength of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-02 Robert F. B. Weigel , Michael Schmiedeberg