On May 29, 2009, at 5:25 PM, A.S.Reeve wrote:
It seems my problem was I was not muliplying the flux terms by
mesh.faceNormals to get only fluxes normal to the cell faces. Once I
started doing this along with your other suggestions, the mass
balances all worked out.
Glad it worked.
P.S. Is there an introductory paper on phase field methods that you
could recommend? Something simple to get me started?
The wikipedia article has a number of general references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_field_models
These review articles are all good starting points:
Boettinger et al. Phase-field simulation of solidification. Ann Rev
Mater Res (2002) vol. 32 pp. 163-194
G. B. McFadden, Contemp. Math. (2002) vol. 306, p. 107
Chen. Phase-field models for microstructure evolution. Ann Rev Mater
Res (2002) vol. 32 pp. 113-140
