The Dynamics of Nucleation in Stochastic Cahn-Morral Systems

نویسندگان

  • Jonathan P. Desi
  • Hanein H. Edrees
  • Joseph J. Price
  • Evelyn Sander
  • Thomas Wanner
چکیده

Cahn–Morral systems serve as models for several phase separation phenomena in multicomponent alloys. In this paper we study the dynamical aspects of nucleation in a stochastic version of these models using numerical simulations, concentrating on ternary, i.e., three-component, alloys on twodimensional square domains. We perform numerical studies and give a statistical classification for the distribution of droplet types as the component structure of the alloy is varied. We relate these statistics to the low-energy equilibria of the deterministic equation.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • SIAM J. Applied Dynamical Systems

دوره 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011