Sinposis

INTRODUCES STUDENTS TO NEW ADVANCES IN PHASE FIELD AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODELING AND THEIR APPLICATIONS FOR NUCLEATION THEORY AND GRAIN GROWTH CONTAINS NUMEROUS INSTRUCTIVE MODELING AND CALCULATION EXAMPLES WITH OVER 300 ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES OF EXTENDED DATA INCLUDES NEW CHAPTERS ON SEMI-SOLID AND METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES SOLIDIFICATION SYNTHESIZES THE INFORMATION THAT CAN BE USED FOR ENGINEERING CALCULATIONS PERTINENT TO COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF CASTING SOLIDIFICATION EXPLAINS ELEMENTS OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS REQUIRED TO OBTAIN A WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF COMPUTATIONAL SOLIDIFICATION MODELING