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This course presents a unified treatment of phenomenological and atomistic kinetic processes in materials.
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This course includes
Hours of videos
777 years, 8 months
Units & Quizzes
28
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Certificate of Completion
It provides the foundation for the advanced understanding of processing, microstructural evolution, and behavior for a broad spectrum of materials. The course emphasizes analysis and development of rigorous comprehension of fundamentals. Topics include: irreversible thermodynamics; diffusion; nucleation; phase transformations; fluid and heat transport; morphological instabilities; gas-solid, liquid-solid, and solid-solid reactions.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction: Fields and Gradients; Fluxes; Continuity Equation Unlimited
- Irreversible Thermodynamics Unlimited
- Driving Forces and Fluxes for Diffusion; Self-Diffusion and Interdiffusion Unlimited
- Interdiffusion; Effects of Electrical Potential, Capillarity, and Stress on Diffusion Potential Unlimited
- Effects of Capillarity and Stress on Diffusion Unlimited
- The Diffusion Equation Unlimited
- Solutions to the Diffusion Equation – I Unlimited
- Solutions to the Diffusion Equation – II Unlimited
- Solutions to the Diffusion Equation – III Unlimited
- Activated Jump Processes Unlimited
- Diffusion Resulting from Discrete Jumps Unlimited
- Diffusion in Crystals Unlimited
- Atomic Models for Diffusivities – I Unlimited
- Atomic Models for Diffusivities – II Unlimited
- Short-Circuit Diffusion in Crystals Unlimited
- Diffusion in Noncrystalline Materials Unlimited
- Surface Evolution Due to Capillary Forces Unlimited
- Particle Coarsening Unlimited
- Grain Growth Unlimited
- Diverse Short Topics: Anisotropic Surfaces, Diffusional Creep, and Sintering Unlimited
- General Features of Phase Transformations Unlimited
- Spinodal Decomposition and Continuous Ordering Unlimited
- Spinodal Decomposition Kinetics Unlimited
- Nucleation Unlimited
- Heterogeneous Nucleation Unlimited
- Diffusional Growth Unlimited
- Morphological Stability of Moving Interfaces Unlimited
- Kinetics of Nucleation and Growth Transformations Unlimited
