Rickman, J.M. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 22, pp. 5155-5162
The evolution of a first-order phase transition in a non-Euclidean space, namely the surface of a sphere, is examined to highlight the role of geometry and spatial confinement on transition kinetics and the associated product microstructure. This is accomplished by investigating spatio-temporal...