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Training

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T00_01_BinaryGlobulitic_E_2D_Lin Globulitic growth of a single solid phase from the liquid of a binary alloy
T00_02_Binary_E_Globulitic_2D_TQ Primary globulitic growth and final eutectic solidification in a binary alloy with initially hypoeutectic concentration.
T00_03_Binary_E_HypoEutectic_2D_Lin Primary globulitic growth and final eutectic solidification in a binary alloy with eutectic phase diagram and initially hypoeutectic concentration
T00_04_Binary_E_HypoEutecticEff_2D_Lin ... with linearised phase diagrams
T00_05_Binary_D_Eutectic_2D_Lin Directional eutectic growth of a binary alloy in temperature gradient
T01_01_AlCu_E_Dendritic_2D_Lin Primary dendritic growth of (Al)-fcc phase from Liquid in Al-3.at% Cu
T01_02_AlCu_E_Dendritic_2D_TQ ... with TQ aluminium-copper
T01_03_AlCu_E_HypoEutectic_2D_TQ Primary dendritic growth of (Al)-fcc phase from Liquid in Al-3.at% Cu and subsequent eutectic growth of AlCu-theta phase
T01_04_AlCu_E_HypoEutecticEff_2D_TQ Primary dendritic growth of (Al)-fcc phase from Liquid in Al-3.at% Cu and subsequent unresolved eutectic growth of AlCu-theta phase
T01_05_AlCu_E_Temp1d_2D_TQ Primary dendritic growth of (Al)-fcc phase from Liquid in Al-3.at% Cu and subsequent unresolved eutectic growth of AlCu-theta phase
T01_06_AlCu_D_Dendrites_2D_Lin Directional growth of primary (Al)-fcc dendrites from Liquid in Al-3.at% Cu
T01_07_AlCu_D_Dendrites_2D_TQ ... with TQ aluminium-copper
T01_10_AlSi_E_HypoEutecticEff_2D_Lin Primary dendritic growth of (Al)-fcc phase from Liquid in Al-7.at% Si. Subsequent unresolved eutectic growth of Si-Diamond phase starts by heterogeneous nucleation in the melt.
T01_20_AlNi_D_DendriteTip_2D_Lin Isothermal free growth of primary (Al)-fcc dendrite from undercooled liquid in Al-3.5wt% Ni
T02_01_FeCMn_D_DeltaGamma_2D_TQ Directional growth of half a primary delta-ferrite dendrite from the liquid of hyopeutectic Fe-0.25 wt C - 1 wt% Mn
T02_20_FeCMn_E_GammaAlphaIsotherm_2D_Lin Alpha-Ferrite nucleates and grows from undercooled isothermal gamma-austenite grain structure in Fe-0.1 wt%C- 1wt% Mn gamma-alpha
T02_21_FeCMn_E_GammaAlphaIsotherm_2D_TQ ... with TQ gamma-alpha
T02_22_FeCMn_E_GammaAlphaIsothermPara_2D_TQ Alpha-Ferrite nucleates and grows from undercooled isothermal gamma-austenite grain structure in Fe-0.1 wt%C- 1wt% Mn. Mn is modelled with para-equilibrium conditions. gamma-alpha
T02_23_FeCMn_E_GammaAlphaIsothermParaTQ_2D_Lin ... with linearised phase diagrams gamma-alpha
T02_24_FeCMn_E_GammaAlphaCementite_2D_TQ Alpha-ferrite nucleates and grows from gamma-austenite grain structure during cooling of Fe-0.25 wt%C- 0.174 wt% Mn. Towards the end of the transition cementite nucleates on alpha-gamma interfaces. gamma-alpha
T02_25_FeCMn_E_GammaAlphaCementite_2D_TQ+Lin ... with lin. phase diagram for cementite using linTQ option gamma-alpha
T02_26_FeCMn_E_GammaAlphaPearliteEff_2D_TQ ... with the coupled eutectoid growth of cementide and ferrite (pearlite) modelled as diffuse 'unresolved' region gamma-alpha
T02_27_FeCMn_E_GammaAlphaStress_2D_Lin ... with elastic stress coupling gamma-alpha
T02_30_FeC_E_GammaAlphaAcicularA_2D_Lin Alpha-ferrite nucleates with special-orientation relationship to gamma-austenite parent grains in Fe-0.1 wt%C rows and then grows with strong anisotropy. Illustration of different ways how to use crystallographic symmetry, special orientation relationship and anisotropy.
T02_31_FeC_E_GammaAlphaAcicularB_2D_Lin ... gamma-alpha
T02_50_FeCMnPSi_PhosphorPeak_1D_TQ --- phosphor-peak
T02_51_FeCMnPSi_PhosphorPeak_2D_TQ --- phosphor-peak
T02_60_FeCSi_E_CastIronNodule_3D_TQ Slightly hyper-eutectic FeCSi-alloy: graphite nucleates in the center of the domain. Nodular growth is modelled by 25 facets.
T02_61_FeCSi_E_CastIronDendriteNodules_3D_TQ Slightly hypo-eutectic FeCSi-alloy: austenite dendrite nulceates in a corner of the domain. Graphite nucleates on distributed seeds.
T02_63_FeCSi_E_CastIronHeatDiffusion_3D_TQ ... with process conditions modelled with heat diffusion
T10_01_GrainGrowth_2D Normal grain growth grain-growth
T10_02_GrainGrowthMisorientation_2D ... with misorientation considered
T10_03_GrainGrowth_3D Ideal isothermal 3D grain growth (starting from 400 grains)
T10_04_GrainGrowthMisorientation_3D Anisotropic isothermal 3D grain growth (200 grains) grain-growth
T10_05_SubGrainGrowth_2D Evolution of two grains with different density of subgrains considering misorientation.
T10_11_GrainGrowthInitialFromFile_2D 2D grain growth starting with initial structure read from file grain-growth
T10_20_GrainGrowthTempProfiles_2D 2D grain growth starting with vertical temperature profiles and temperature dependent mobility data read from file grain-growth
T10_30_GrainGrowthPinning_2D 2D grain growth with particle pinning starting with an initial structure read from file grain-growth
T10_40_GrainGrowthSoluteDrag_2D 2D grain growth with "solute_drag" option and initial structure read from file grain-growth
T10_41_GrainGrowthDGDependentMobility_2D 2D grain growth with "dg_dependent" option for mobility and initial structure read from file grain-growth
T11_01_ReXDeterministic ---
T11_02_ReXRandom ---
T11_03_ReXLocalHumphreys ---
T11_04_ReXLocalRecovery ---
T11_05_ReXMeanDislocation ---
T20_01_Stress_2D ---
T30_01_FlowCylinderLaminar --- flow
T40_01_Temperature_2D Evolution of grains with different curvature at constant undercooling
T50_10_GrowthFiniteMobilityATCMobCorr_1D_Lin ---
T50_11_GrowthFiniteMobilityNoATCMobCorr_1D_Lin ---
T51_01_AnisotropyFacettedGrain Uncoupled growth of single facetted grain - this example can be used to test different combinations of facet vector.
T51_02_AnisotropyFacettedGrains Uncoupled growth of 5 facetted grains with different grain orientation - this example can be used to test different combinations of facet vector and their numerical resolution.
T51_03_AnisotropyDendriteCubic_2D_Lin Diffusion controlled growth of dendrite with cubic anisotropy in 2D taking advantage of the crystallographic symmetry (¼ dendrite)
T51_10_NucleationSeedDensityLogN1 Nucleation-model: seed density with logNormal1 option
T51_11_NucleationSeedDensityLogN2 Nucleation-model: seed density with logNormal2 option
T51_12_NucleationSeedDensityClass Nucleation-model: seed density by given seed density classes

Benchmark

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B001_1D_ConstantDrivingForce 1D solid/liquid front with constant velocity
B002_1D_ConstantDrivingForce_MovingFrame 1D solid/liquid front with constant velocity. Global CO-system moves controlled by constant distance of the solid phase to the top
B003_1Grain_GrowthFromLiquid 2D circular grain of phase 1 growing from liquid (isothermal with constant undercooling of 1 K)
B004_1Grain_GrowthFromLiquid_ZeroInitialSize An initial solid grain of zero size is located in the center of the domain. The initial growth from the liquid is then modelled using the analytical_curvature model.
B005_1Grain_RoundInverse ---
B006_1Grain_Shrinking_3D Single spherical grain shrinking due to curvature, no thermodynamic driving force.
B007_1Grain_Shrinking Single grain shrinking due to curvature (2D), no thermodynamic driving force.
B008_1Grain_Solidification_FiniteInitialSize ---
B009_2Phases_1Grain ---
B010_2Phases_DirectionalShrinking ---
B011_2Phases_DirectionalShrinking_MovingFrame Directional motion simply driven by curvature, i.e. no thermodynamic driving force applied.
B012_2Phases_DirectionalShrinking_Triple ---
B013_Liq+2Phases_Triple_Inert Only interaction between liquid and phase 1. The interface between phase 1 and phase 2 should remain straight without any impact of the triple junction.
B014_Liq+2Phases_Triple_Inert_Wetting No Interaction between liquid and phase 2. However, the interfacial energy between liquid and phase 2 is smaller than the interfacial energy between phase 1 and phase 2 which leads to wetting of phase 1 on phase 2.
B015_3Phases_Triple Interaction defined between three phases, but mobilities between phase 3 and others equals to zero. Only phase 2 is growing from phase 1 due to a constant undercooling. The interface between phase 1 and phase 2 should remain planar without any impact of the triple junction.
B016_diffusion_control 1D Interface motion controlled by diffusion in liquid. Isothermal Simulation with comoving frame, no gradient.
B017_Flow_Cylinder_Karman --- flow
B018_1D_Zener_Diffusion_Control 1D Interface motion controlled by diffusion in liquid. Validation by comparison to precise analytical solution from Zener.

Application

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A001_Delta_Gamma Directional growth of half a primary delta-ferrite dendrite from the liquid of hyopeutectic Fe-0.25 wt% C - 1 wt% Mn delta-gamma
A002_AlCu_Temp1d Equiaxed solidification of multiple Al-Cu grains aluminium-copper
A003_CastIronDendriteNodules Slightly hypoeutectic FeCSi-alloy. Austenite dendrite nucleates in a corner of the domain. Graphite nucleates on distributed seeds. Eutectic austenite nucleates on graphite.
A004_Gamma_Alpha_TQ Alpha-Ferrite nucleates and grows from undercooled isothermal gamma-austenite grain structure in Fe - 0.1wt% C - 1.5wt% Mn.
A005_Grain_Growth_Misorientation_3D ---
A006_CMSX4 ---
A007_Dendrite_AlSi_3D Equiaxed 3D Dendrite AlSi7 at 0.3 K/s cooling rate
A008_Dendrite_AlSi_3D_flow Equiaxed 3D Dendrite AlSi7 at 0.1 K/s cooling rate in forced melt flow at 1 mm/s
A009_Flow_Permeability --- flow
A011_Flow_Readfrac ---
A013_GammaAlphaPearlite_TQ Hypo-eutectoid FeCMn-alloy. Ferrite nucleates at austenitic grain boundaries. System is cooled down with constant heat extraction rate while latent heat is released.
A014_CMSX4_Rafting 6h Ripening + 10 h rafting of gammaprime in CMSX4
A015_AlSiMg_Unresolved --- eutectic phase
A016_NiAlMo_Cubic_Precipitate_3D ---
A017_M247_Additive_constGV An already liquid layer of CM247LC powder (30 microns thick) is solidified under constant thermal gradient and cooling rate.
A018_Al4Cu_Additive_Rosenthal An solid homogeneous layer of Al4Cu (as single fcc-phase, virtually representing the base metal plus powder layer) is heated from the top assuming thermal conditions of an (arbitrary) heat source ("Rosenthal solution").