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arXiv:cond-mat/9902017 (cond-mat)
[Submitted on 1 Feb 1999]

Title:Phase-Field Model of Dendritic Sidebranching with Thermal Noise

Authors:Alain Karma, Wouter-Jan Rappel
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Abstract: We investigate dendritic sidebranching during crystal growth in an undercooled melt by simulation of a phase-field model which incorporates thermal noise of microscopic origin. As a non-trivial quantitative test of this model, we first show that the simulated fluctuation spectrum of a one-dimensional interface in thermal equilibrium agrees with the exact sharp-interface spectrum up to an irrelevant short-wavelength cutoff comparable to the interface thickness. Simulations of dendritic growth are then carried out in two dimensions to compute sidebranching characteristics (root-mean-square amplitude and mean spacing between sidebranches) as a function of distance behind the tip. These quantities are found to be in good overall quantitative agreement with the predictions of the existing linear WKB theory of noise amplification. The extension of this study to three dimensions remains needed to determine the origin of noise in experiments.
Comments: 12 pages latex submitted to Phys Rev E
Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
Cite as: arXiv:cond-mat/9902017 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
  (or arXiv:cond-mat/9902017v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9902017
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.60.3614

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From: Alain Karma [view email]
[v1] Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:06:54 UTC (154 KB)
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