A Stochastic Phase-Field Model Computed From Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics

Details A Stochastic Phase-Field Model Computed From Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics A Stochastic Phase-Field Model Computed From Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics

2009-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/0908.1367v1

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Numerical Analysis

48 pages, 27 figures, part of author's thesis http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4477

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Results are presented from numerical experiments aiming at the computation of stochastic phase-field models for phase transformations by coarse-graining molecular dynamics. The studied phase transformations occur between a solid crystal and a liquid. Nucleation and growth, sometimes dendritic, of crystal grains in a sub-cooled liquid is determined by diffusion and convection of heat, on the macroscopic level, and by interface effects, where the width of the solid-liquid interface is on an atomic length-scale. Phase-field methods are widely used in the study of the continuum level time evolution of the phase transformations; they introduce an order parameter to distinguish between the phases. The dynamics of the order parameter is modelled by an Allen--Cahn equation and coupled to an energy equation, where the latent heat at the phase transition enters as a source term. Stochastic fluctuations are sometimes added in the coupled system of partial differential equations to introduce nucleation and to get qualitatively correct behaviour of dendritic side-branching. In this report the possibility of computing some of the Allen-Cahn model functions from a microscale model is investigated. The microscopic model description of the material by stochastic, Smoluchowski, dynamics is considered given. A local average of contributions to the potential energy in the micro model is used to determine the local phase, and a stochastic phase-field model is computed by coarse-graining the molecular dynamics. Molecular dynamics simulations on a two phase system at the melting point are used to compute a double-well reaction term in the Allen--Cahn equation and a diffusion matrix describing the noise in the coarse-grained phase-field.

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