▪ Abstract The phase-field method has recently emerged as a powerful computational
approach to modeling and predicting mesoscale morphological and microstructure evolution …

▪ Abstract An overview of the phase-field method for modeling solidification is presented,
together with several example results. Using a phase-field variable and a corresponding …

Thermal and solute diffusion plays an important role in α-Mg dendrite growth, the diffusion
mechanism of which is still unclear. Here, thermal and solute diffusion in α-Mg dendrite …

The phase-field method has become an important and extremely versatile technique for
simulating microstructure evolution at the mesoscale. Thanks to the diffuse-interface …

A combined cellular automaton-finite difference (CA-FD) model has been developed to
simulate solute diffusion controlled solidification of binary alloys. Constitutional and …

The phase-field method has recently emerged as the most powerful computational tool for
simulating complicated dendrite growth. However, these simulations are still limited to two …

A phase-field model is developed for simulating quantitatively microstructural pattern
formation in solidification of dilute binary alloys with coupled heat and solute diffusion. The …

In the last few decades, the phase field method has shown tremendous capabilities of
predicting microstructure evolutions at the mesoscale scale. This method was widely used …

A computationally efficient quantitative virtual front tracking model for the two-dimensional
simulation of dendritic growth in the low Péclet number regime is developed. The kinetics of …

A phase-field model of alloy solidification is coupled to a new heat transfer finite element
model of the laser powder deposition process. The robustness and accuracy of the coupled …