Barret Memorial Lecture

Early Phase-Field Calculations

•G. Caginalp & E. Socolovsky (1991, 1994)

•R. Kobayashi (1993, 1994)

• A. Wheeler, B. Murray, R. Schaefer (1993)

•2nd order accurate finite differences on 2-D uniform mesh

•Explicit time-stepping for phase-field equation

•Implicit (ADI) for energy equation

•Mesh convergence an issue

•Vector machines (Cray)

•Roldan Pozo (benchmarks on PC cluster at NIST)