Numerical computation of the linear stability of the diffusion model for crystal growth simulation
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (United States)
We consider a computational scheme for determining the linear stability of a diffusion model arising from the simulation of crystal growth. The process of a needle crystal solidifying into some undercooled liquid can be described by the dual diffusion equations with appropriate initial and boundary conditions. Here U{sub t} and U{sub a} denote the temperature of the liquid and solid respectively, and {alpha} represents the thermal diffusivity. At the solid-liquid interface, the motion of the interface denoted by r and the temperature field are related by the conservation relation where n is the unit outward pointing normal to the interface. A basic stationary solution to this free boundary problem can be obtained by writing the equations of motion in a moving frame and transforming the problem to parabolic coordinates. This is known as the Ivantsov parabola solution. Linear stability theory applied to this stationary solution gives rise to an eigenvalue problem of the form.
- Research Organization:
- Front Range Scientific Computations, Inc., Lakewood, CO (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 440733
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9604167-Vol.2; ON: DE96015307; TRN: 97:000721-0055
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Copper Mountain conference on iterative methods, Copper Mountain, CO (United States), 9-13 Apr 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]; Related Information: Is Part Of Copper Mountain conference on iterative methods: Proceedings: Volume 2; PB: 242 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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