Surface Transport in Pre--Melted Films with Application to Grain--Boundary Grooving

Details Surface Transport in Pre--Melted Films with Application to Grain--Boundary Grooving Surface Transport in Pre--Melted Films with Application to Grain--Boundary Grooving

2012-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/1201.2529v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 176102 (2005)

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.176102

We present a new model of surface transport in premelted films that is applicable to a wide range of materials close to their melting point. We illustrate its use by applying it to the evolution of a grain boundary groove in a high vapour pressure material and show that Mullins's classical equation describing transport driven by gradients in surface curvature is reproduced asymptotically. The microscopic contact angle at the groove root is found to be modified over a thin boundary layer, and the apparent contact angle is determined. An explicit transport coefficient is derived that governs the evolution rate of systems controlled by surface transport through premelted films. The transport coefficient is found to depend on temperature and diverges as the bulk melting temperature is approached.

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