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Register a new userAnisotropy in interface stress at the BCC-iron solid-melt interface: molecular dynamics and phase field crystal modelling
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Mogadalai P Gururajan
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2021
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Physics
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The interface stresses at of the solid-melt interface are, in general, anisotropic. The anisotropy in the interfacial stress can be evaluated using molecular dynamics (MD) and phase field crystal (PFC) models. In this paper, we report our results on the evaluation of the anisotropy in interface stress in a BCC solid with its melt. Specifically, we study Fe using both MD and PFC models. We show that while both MD and PFC can be used for the evaluation, and the PFC and the amplitude equations based on PFC give quantitatively consistent results, the MD and PFC results are qualitatively the same but do not match quantitatively. We also find that even though the interfacial free energy is only weakly anisotropic in BCC interfacial stress anisotropy is strong. This strong anisotropy has implications for the equilibrium shapes, growth morphologies and other properties at nano-scale in these materials.
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