Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2005-02-10
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
37 pages, 18 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.72.011602
A phase-field model that allows for quantitative simulations of low-speed eutectic and peritectic solidification under typical experimental conditions is developed. Its cornerstone is a smooth free-energy functional, designed so that the stable solutions connecting any two phases are completely free of the third phase. For the simplest choice of this functional, the equations of motion for each of the two solid-liquid interfaces can be mapped to the standard phase-field model of single-phase solidification, and all thin-interface corrections to the dynamics of the solid-liquid interfaces can be eliminated. This means that simulation results become independent of the thickness W of the diffuse interfaces. As a consequence, accurate results can be obtained using values of W much larger than the physical interface thickness, which makes simulations for realistic experimental parameters feasible. Convergence of the simulation outcome with decreasing W is explicitly demonstrated. The results are also compared to a boundary-integral formulation of the corresponding free-boundary problem. Excellent agreement is found, except in the immediate vicinity of bifurcation points, where differences arise. These differences reveal that, in contrast to the standard assumptions of the free-boundary problem, out of equilibrium the diffuse trijunction region of the phase-field model can (i) slightly deviate from Young's law for the contact angles, and (ii) advance in a direction that forms a finite angle with the solid-solid interface at each instant. While the deviation (i) extrapolates to zero in the limit of vanishing interface thickness, the small angle in (ii) remains roughly constant, which indicates that it might be a genuine physical effect, present even for an atomic-scale interface thickness.
Folch Roger
Plapp Mathis
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