Early Phase-Field Calculations
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G. Caginalp & E. Socolovsky (1991, 1994)
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R. Kobayashi (1993, 1994)
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A. Wheeler, B. Murray, R. Schaefer (1993)
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2
nd
order accurate finite differences on 2-D uniform mesh
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Explicit time-stepping for phase-field equation
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Implicit (ADI) for energy equation
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Mesh convergence an issue
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Vector machines (Cray)
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Roldan Pozo (benchmarks on PC cluster at NIST)