We model the growth of Ag films deposited on Ag(100) below 140K. Our recent VariableTemperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy {VTSTM) studies reveal "smooth growth" from 120-140K, consistent with earlier diffraction studies. However, we also find rougher growth for lower temperatures. This unexpected behavior is modeled by describing the deposition dynamics using a "restricted downward funnelin...

In [59], periodic minimal surfaces in a medium with exclusions (voids) are constructed and in this paper we present two algorithms for computing these minimal surfaces. The two algorithms use evolution of level sets by mean curvature. The first algorithm solves the governing nonlinear PDE directly and enforces numerically an orthogonality condition that the surfaces satisfy when they meet the b...

Photoacoustic (PA) signals of CsPbCl3 crystals have been examined in a wide temperature range of 150–300 K. The PA signals, induced by ns-pulsed laser excitation of electronic states and detected with a piezoelectric transducer, are thermoelastic ultrasonic waves lasting for hundreds of microseconds. The wavelet analysis of the PA wave has clarified that the thermoelastic wave includes several ...

Hollow micro/nano structures form an important family of functional materials. We have used the thermal oxidation process combined with the passage of electric current during a structural phase transition to disclose a colossal mass diffusion transfer of Ti ions. This combination points to a new route for fabrication of hollow materials. A structural phase transition at high temperature prepare...

In this paper, the closed form analytical expressions for the displacement field due to a cylindrical inclusion in a thermoelastic half-space are obtained. These expressions are derived in the context of steady-state uncoupled thermoelasticity using thermoelastic displacement potential functions. The thermal displacement field is generated due to differences in the coefficients of linear therma...

In this work, thermoelastic damping effect on the hemispherical shells is investigated. The material is selected silicon, and heat conduction equation for thermal flow is solved to obtain the temperature profile in which bending approximation with inextensional assumption of the model. Using the temperature profile, eigen-value analysis is performed to get the natural frequencies of hemispheric...

Voids are observed to be generated under sufficient loading in many materials, ranging from polymers and metals to biological tissues. The presence of these voids can have drastic implications at the macroscopic level including strong material softening and more incipient fracture. Developing tools to appropriately account for these effects is therefore very desirable. This thesis is concerned ...

Abstract. Diffusion bonding is a solid-state welding operation that has seen wide spread use in the aerospace industry, especially combination with superplastic forming. It combines two relatively flat, clean surfaces at high temperature to create near flawless weld over large surface area. Modelling of diffusion been challenging due part because larger variations voids formed from mating surfa...