Comparison of phase-field models for surface diffusion

Autor: Robert Spatschek, Klaus Kassner, Clemens Gugenberger
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Physical review / E 78(1), 016703 (2008). doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.78.016703
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.0711.1809
Popis: The description of surface-diffusion controlled dynamics via the phase-field method is less trivial than it appears at first sight. A seemingly straightforward approach from the literature is shown to fail to produce the correct asymptotics, albeit in a subtle manner. Two models are constructed that approximate known sharp-interface equations without adding undesired constraints. Linear stability of a planar interface is investigated for the resulting phase-field equations and shown to reduce to the desired limit. Finally, numerical simulations of the standard and a more sophisticated model from the literature as well as of our two new models are performed to assess the relative merits of each approach. The results suggest superior performance of the new models in at least some situations.
Comment: 23 pages, 16 figures, submitted to PRE, this paper is closely related to cond-mat/0607823, in which some of the analytical derivations are already given and the 3D case is treated
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