Modeling growth, coalescence, and stability of helium precipitates on patterned interfaces Academic Article

abstract

• 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. We develop a phase field simulation to model morphology evolution of helium (He) precipitates on solid-state interfaces. Our approach accounts for differences in precipitate contact angles arising from location-dependent interface energies and is capable of describing precipitate growth, coalescence, and de-wetting from the interface. We demonstrate our approach for interfaces with linear chains of wettable patches and find that different wetting energies and patch spacings give rise to four distinct classes of helium precipitate morphologies. Our method may be adapted to other scenarios involving fluids precipitating on non-uniform solid-state interfaces as well as to precipitation on patterned surfaces.

authors

• Demkowicz, Michal

published proceedings

• MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

author list (cited authors)

• Yuryev, D. V., & Demkowicz, M. J.

citation count

• 10

complete list of authors

• Yuryev, DV||Demkowicz, MJ

publication date

• January 2017

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING  Journal

keywords

• He Morphology
• Heterogeneous Interfaces
• Phase-field

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1088/0965-0393/25/1/015003

start page

• 015003

end page

• 015003

volume

• 25

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1088%2F0965-0393%2F25%2F1%2F015003