Ramanarayan, H.; Abinandanan, T.A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 318 (2003) 1, pp. 213-219
We have used a phase field model (a continuum equivalent of the Potts model) for studying spinodal decomposition (SD) in polycrystalline alloys. We show that the evolution of the microstructure is governed largely by the difference in the grain boundary energies γgb of A-rich α and B-rich β...