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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2003

Phase-field approach for faceted solidification

J-M Debierre
Alain Karma
  • Fonction : Auteur
Franck Celestini
R. Guerin
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

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. E 53, 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 gamma=gamma(0)[1+delta(\sin theta\+\cos theta\)]. The phase-field results are consistent with the scaling law Lambdasimilar toV(-1/2) 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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hal-00737470 , version 1 (01-10-2012)

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J-M Debierre, Alain Karma, Franck Celestini, R. Guerin. Phase-field approach for faceted solidification. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2003, 68 (4), pp.061604. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.68.041604⟩. ⟨hal-00737470⟩
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