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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

We describe a general method to model multicomponent ordered crystals using the phase-field crystal (PFC) formalism. As a test case, a generic B2 compound is investigated. We are able to produce a line of either first-order or second-order…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Eli Alster , K. R. Elder , Jeffrey J. Hoyt , Peter W. Voorhees

Computing stationary states is an important topic for phase field crystal (PFC) models. Great efforts have been made for energy dissipation of the numerical schemes when using gradient flows. However, it is always time-consuming due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Kai Jiang , Wei Si , Chenglong Bao

We derive a phase field crystal model that couples the diffusive evolution of a microscopic structure with the fast dynamics of a macroscopic velocity field, explicitly accounting for the relaxation of elastic excitations. This model…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Vidar Skogvoll , Marco Salvalaglio , Luiza Angheluta

Phase field crystal (PFC) models constitute central tools for a microscopic understanding of the dynamics of complex systems in soft matter physics. They have found widespread application in the modeling of the uniaxial orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-22 Anouar El Moumane , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen , Michael te Vrugt

A nonlocal phase-field crystal (NPFC) model is presented as a nonlocal counterpart of the local phase-field crystal (LPFC) model and a special case of the structural PFC (XPFC) derived from classical field theory for crystal growth and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Qiang Du , Kai Wang , Jiang Yang

In this paper, we construct and analyze an energy stable scheme by combining the latest developed scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach and linear finite element method (FEM) for phase field crystal (PFC) model, and show rigorously that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Liupeng Wang , Yunqing Huang , Kai Jiang

The phase field crystal (PFC) method has emerged as a promising technique for modeling materials with atomistic resolution on mesoscopic time scales. The approach is numerically much more efficient than classical density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael Greenwood , Nikolas Provatas , Jörg Rottler

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

We introduce a fast solver for the phase field crystal (PFC) and functionalized Cahn-Hilliard (FCH) equations with periodic boundary conditions on a rectangular domain that features the preconditioned Nesterov accelerated gradient descent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Jea-Hyun Park , Abner Salgado , Steven Wise

In this paper we propose and analyze an energy stable numerical scheme for the square phase field crystal (SPFC) equation, a gradient flow modeling crystal dynamics at the atomic scale in space but on diffusive scales in time. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Kelong Cheng , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

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

We discuss an active phase field crystal (PFC) model that describes a mixture of active and passive particles. First, a microscopic derivation from dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is presented that includes a systematic treatment…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-26 Michael te Vrugt , Max Philipp Holl , Aron Koch , Raphael Wittkowski , Uwe Thiele

In this paper we present two unconditionally energy stable finite difference schemes for the Modified Phase Field Crystal (MPFC) equation, a sixth-order nonlinear damped wave equation, of which the purely parabolic Phase Field Crystal (PFC)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Arvind Baskaran , Peng Zhou , Zhengzheng Hu , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise , John S. Lowengrub

The reaction-diffusion model can generate a wide variety of spatial patterns, which has been widely applied in chemistry, biology, and physics, even used to explain self-regulated pattern formation in the developing animal embryo. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Hui Zhang , Xiaoyun Jiang , Fanhai Zeng , George Em Karniadakis

An algorithm for determining crystal structures from diffraction data is described which does not rely on the usual Fourier-space formulations of atomicity. The new algorithm implements atomicity constraints in real-space, as well as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Veit Elser

The phase-field method has become a useful tool for the simulation of classical metallurgical phase transformations as well as other phenomena related to materials science. The thermodynamic consistency that forms the basis of these…

In order to quantitatively study the accuracy of the unconditionally stable coarsening algorithms, we calculate the Fourier space multi step error on the order parameter field by explicitly distinguishing the analytic time $\tau$ and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-04-09 Mowei Cheng

We develop a fully continuous model for colloidal suspensions with hydrodynamic interactions. The Navier Stokes Phase Field Crystal (NS-PFC) model combines ideas of dynamic density functional theory with particulate flow approaches and is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-27 Simon Praetorius , Axel Voigt

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