Lattice-Gas Crystallization

Abstract

This paper presents a new lattice-gas method for molecular dynamics modeling. A mean field treatment is given and is applied to a linear stability analysis. Exact numerical simulations of the solid-phase crystallization is presented, as is a finite-temperature multiphase liquid-gas system. The lattice-gas method, a discrete dynamical method, is therefore capable of representing a variety of collective phenomena in multiple regimes from the hydrodynamic scale down to a molecular dynamics scale.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 20, 1994
Accession Number
ADA421735

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey Yepez

Organizations

  • Phillips Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Critical Temperature
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Dynamics
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Exclusion Principle
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Gas Dynamics
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Phase
  • Phase Transformations
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.