Phase-Field Approach for Faceted Solidification

Details Phase-Field Approach for Faceted Solidification Phase-Field Approach for Faceted Solidification

2003-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302368v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

1O pages, 2 tables, 17 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.68.041604

We extend the phase-field approach to model the solidification of faceted materials. Our approach consists of using an approximate gamma-plot with rounded cusps that can approach arbitrarily closely the true gamma-plot with sharp cusps that correspond to faceted orientations. The phase-field equations are solved in the thin-interface limit with local equilibrium at the solid-liquid interface [A. Karma and W.-J. Rappel, Phys. Rev. E53, R3017 (1996)]. The convergence of our approach is first demonstrated for equilibrium shapes. The growth of faceted needle crystals in an undercooled melt is then studied as a function of undercooling and the cusp amplitude delta for a gamma-plot of the form 1+delta(|sin(theta)|+|cos(theta)|). The phase-field results are consistent with the scaling law "Lambda inversely proportional to the square root of V" observed experimentally, where Lambda is the facet length and V is the growth rate. In addition, the variation of V and Lambda with delta is found to be reasonably well predicted by an approximate sharp-interface analytical theory that includes capillary effects and assumes circular and parabolic forms for the front and trailing rough parts of the needle crystal, respectively.

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