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1Peter Grünberg Institut, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany and Computational Materials Design Department, Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung, D-40074 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Abstract:
Phase-field models are powerful tools to tackle free-boundary problems. For phase transformations involving diffusion, the evolution of the nonconserved phase field is coupled to the evolution of the conserved diffusion field. Introducing the kinetic cross coupling between these two fields [E. A. Brener and G. Boussinot, Phys. Rev. E 86, 060601(R) (2012)], we solve the long-standing problem of a realistic description of interface kinetics when a diffusional contrast between the phases is taken into account. Using the case of the solidification of a pure substance, we show how to eliminate the temperature jump at the interface and to recover full equilibrium boundary conditions. We confirm our results by numerical simulations.
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