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We investigate with computer simulations the effect of applying an electric field on the water-to-ice transition. We use a combination of state-of-the-art simulation techniques to obtain phase boundaries and crystal growth rates (direct…

In this work, a numerical simulation framework is presented based on the Phase Field Method that is able to capture the evolution of heterogeneous metallic microstructures during solidification. The involved physics can prove especially…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-22 Patrick Zimbrod , Johannes Schilp

The phase-field-crystal model for liquid crystals is solved numerically in two spatial dimensions. This model is formulated with three position-dependent order parameters, namely the reduced translational density, the local nematic order…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Cristian Vasile Achim , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We present a computer simulation study of the crystalline phases of hard ellipsoids of revolution. A previous study [Phys. Rev. E, \textbf{75}, 020402 (2007)] showed that for aspect ratios $a/b\ge 3$ the previously suggested stretched-fcc…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Radu , P. Pfleiderer , T. Schilling

In this letter we describe a method of extending an existing phase field model of polycrystalline solidification from two to three dimensions (3D).

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ryo Kobayashi , James A. Warren

While biological crystallization processes have been studied on the microscale extensively, models addressing the mesoscale aspects of such phenomena are rare. In this work, we investigate whether the phase-field theory developed in…

Phase type (PH) distributions are widely used in modeling and simulation due to their generality and analytical properties. In such settings, it is often necessary to construct a PH distribution that aligns with real-world data by matching…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Eliran Sherzer , Yehezkel Resheff , Miklos Telek

Temperature stabilization of oil and gas wells is used to ensure stability and prevent deformation of a subgrade estuary zone. In this work, we consider the numerical simulation of thermal stabilization using vertical seasonal freezing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Natalia V. Pavlova , Petr N. Vabishchevich , Maria V. Vasilyeva

We apply the phase field crystal model to study the structure and energy of symmetric tilt grain boundaries of bcc iron in 3D. The parameters for the model are obtained by using a recently developed eight-order fitting scheme [A. Jaatinen…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-29 A. Jaatinen , C. V. Achim , K. R. Elder , T. Ala-Nissila

We present two types of meta-algorithm that can greatly improve the accuracy of existing algorithms for integrating the equations of motion of dynamical systems. The first meta-algorithm takes an integrator that is time-symmetric only for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut , Yoko Funato , Eiichiro Kokubo , Junichiro Makino , Steve McMillan

Building oscillator based computing systems with emerging nano-device technologies has become a promising solution for unconventional computing tasks like computer vision and pattern recognition. However, simulation and analysis of these…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yan Fang , Victor V. Yashin , Donald M. Chiarulli , Steven P. Levitan

A temporal homogenization approach for the numerical simulation of atherosclerotic plaque growth is extended to fully coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations. The numerical results indicate that the two-scale approach yields…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Stefan Frei , Alexander Heinlein , Thomas Richter

Local time-stepping methods permit to overcome the severe stability constraint on explicit methods caused by local mesh refinement without sacrificing explicitness. In \cite{DiazGrote09}, a leapfrog based explicit local time-stepping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Marcus J. Grote , Simon Michel , Stefan Sauter

Colloidal model systems allow studying crystallization kinetics under fairly ideal conditions with rather well characterized pair interactions and minimized external influences. In complementary approaches therefore experiment, analytic…

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In this paper, we present an efficient numerical method to address a thermodynamically consistent gas flow model in porous media involving compressible gas and deformable rock. The accurate modeling of gas flow in porous media often poses…

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We propose an experimental study of adaptive time-stepping methods for efficient modeling of the aggregation-fragmentation kinetics. Precise modeling of this phenomena usually requires utilization of the large systems of nonlinear ordinary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Sergey A. Matveev , Viktor Zhilin , Alexander P. Smirnov

The temporal behaviour of segmentation clock oscillations show phase synchrony via mean field like coupling of delta protein restricting to nearest neighbours only, in a configuration of cells arranged in a regular three dimensional array.…

In this work, we develop a localized numerical scheme with low regularity requirements for solving time-fractional integro-differential equations. First, a fully discrete numerical scheme is constructed. Specifically, for temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Lijing Zhao , Rui Zhao , Wenyi Tian , Yufeng Nie

Calculation of phase diagrams is one of the fundamental tools in alloy design---more specifically under the framework of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering. Uncertainty quantification of phase diagrams is the first step required…

We extend the phase field crystal model to accommodate exact atomic configurations and vacancies by requiring the order parameter to be non-negative. The resulting theory dictates the number of atoms and describes the motion of each of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Pak Yuen Chan , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jon Dantzig