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Mass Conservation in Grain Growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

David T. Wu*
Affiliation:
Center for Materials Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
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Abstract

Several alternatives to Hillert’s work on grain growth have been proposed. Unfortunately some of these theories have been shown to violate mass conservation. This paper introduces a way to enforce conservation for any model via a term representing self-interaction of the grain distribution.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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