% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @PHDTHESIS{Wang:845158, author = {Wang, Kai}, othercontributors = {Spatschek, Robert and Svendsen, Bob}, title = {{Q}uantitative nondiagonal phase field modeling of phase transformations}, school = {Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen}, type = {Dissertation}, address = {Aachen}, publisher = {RWTH Aachen University}, reportid = {RWTH-2022-04446}, pages = {1 Online-Ressource : Illustrationen}, year = {2021}, note = {Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University 2022; Dissertation, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2021}, abstract = {The investigation of phase transformations is of great interest in various fields. For diffusional transitions, accurate descriptions of the diffusion processes in the parent, growing phases and at the interfaces are the prerequisite to predict the complex growth patterns. In the last decades, the phase field method has emerged as a powerful tool to investigate the moving interface problems. However, the elimination of the artificial enhanced interface effects is a long-standing unsolved problem in the phase field community. In the symmetric and the one-sided cases, the “thin-interface limit” and the anti-trapping current are proposed by Karma to reproduce the free boundary conditions. Only recently, the nondiagonal phase field model has been developed according to Onsager’s relations in the two-sided case. In this work, we present the capabilities of the nondiagonal phase field model and extend the binary nondiagonal phase field model to complex alloys. A four-fold surface energy anisotropy is incorporated in the binary nondiagonal phase field model to investigate the two-dimensional free dendrite growth of pure substances solidification. In the symmetric and the one-sided cases, the nondiagonal phase field simulation results are benchmarked with Green’s function calculations. In the general two-sided case, the capabilities of nondiagonal phase field model are compared with the predictions of a generalized expression. Furthermore, the necessity of the Onsager cross-coupling term is also evidenced. Based on Onsager’s principles, the binary nondiagonal phase field model is ex- tended to three-phase transformations by using the free energy functional. The two-dimensional nondiagonal phase field simulations are carried out not only for eutectic solidification in the one-sided case, but also for eutectoid transformation in the two-sided case. One the one hand, the obtained simulation results during eu- tectic solidification are benchmarked against boundary integral calculations in the one-sided case. On the other hand, simulations performed in the two-sided case during eutectoid transformations reveal that the dimensionless growth velocities of the lamellae is proportional to the ratio of diffusion coefficients. Furthermore, in both the one- and two-sided cases, the necessity of using the cross-coupling term in the nondiagonal phase field model is verified by quantitative simulations. Since the free energy based nondiagonal model is limited for simple symmetric phase diagrams, we develop a grand potential based nondiagonal three-phase field model for complex alloy transformations. The corresponding two-dimensional phase field simulations are implemented to investigate the growth kinetics of the pearlite transformation with respect to different diffusion paths. In the one-sided case, the simulation results are compared with the Zener-Hillert model, while the simulation results in the two-sided case are proportional to the diffusivity ratios, which agrees well wit Ankit’s model. Additionally, we also point out that diffusion in cementite has low influence on the growth kinetic of the pearlite transformation. When the surface diffusion is considered, in the one-sided case, the growth velocities of the lamellae is proportional to the surface diffusion coefficient. Finally, we consider the diffusion in austenite, cementite as well as the surface diffusion and reproduce the pearlite growth for different undercoolings. The nondiagonal phase field simulation results have a convincing agreement with the experimental observations without adjustable parameters.}, cin = {525820 / 520000}, ddc = {620}, cid = {$I:(DE-82)525820_20160614$ / $I:(DE-82)520000_20140620$}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11}, doi = {10.18154/RWTH-2022-04446}, url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/845158}, }