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    INR 1000yesIIT Bombay

    The Syllabus

    • Solution models
    • Summary of solution models
    • G vs X diagrams
    • Phase diagrams
    • Bond breaking model
    • Chemical potential
    • Tutorial 1
    • Tutorial 2
    • Tutorial 3
    • Tutorial 4
    • Tutorial 5
    • Tutorial 6

    • Diffusion and chemical potential
    • Fick's law
    • Failure of classical diffusion equation
    • Some references
    • Spinodal decomposition - some historySpinodal decomposition
    • Stability
    • Thermodynamic property : composition dependence
    • Regions of stability
    • Understanding spinodal region
    • Tutorial 7

    • Solution to classical diffusion equation
    • Diffusion and mobility I
    • Diffusion and mobility II
    • Failure of classical diffusion equation
    • Non-classical diffusion equation
    • GNU Octave : Introduction
    • GNU Octave : interactive mode

    • GNU Octave : script mode
    • Ideal solution using octave
    • Regular solution using octave
    • Constructing phase diagram
    • Plotting spinodal
    • Non-dimensionalisation of diffusion equation
    • Diffusion and Fourier law of heat conduction

    •  Diffusion equation : Analytical solution I
    • Diffusion equation : Analytical solution II
    • Diffusion equation : Error function solution I
    • Diffusion equation: Error function solution II

    • Diffusion equation : finite difference method
    • Diffusion equation : zero flux BC and explicit method
    • Diffusion equation : zero flux BC and implicit method
    • Diffusion equation : imposed concentration BC and explicit/implicit methods
    • Periodic boundary conditions (PBC)

    • Expicit method with PBC
    • Spectral Techniques I
    • Spectral Techniques II
    • Implicit spectral method
    • Scalars, vectors and tensors
    • Coordinate transformation
    • Transformation laws
    • II rank tensors and Neumann principle
    • Group theory

    • Crystal: symmetry elements I
    • Crystal: symmetry elements II
    • Understanding Neumann's principle
    • Representation quadric
    • Variational calculus
    • Optimization of functionals I
    • Optimization of functional II
    • Variational derivative

    • Free energy functional
    • Derivation of Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation I
    • Derivation of Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation II
    • Free energy versus concentration curves
    • Diffusion equation versus CH
    • Numerical solution of CH: finite difference
    • Numerical solution of CH: spectral method

    • Interfacial energy in CH
    • CH: analytical solution
    • Interfacial energy in CH: analytical calculation
    •  Interfacial energy: numerical versus analytical values
    • Order-disorder transition and Allen-Cahn equation
    • AC: numerical solution

    • Spinodal decomposition in 2D
    • Order-disorder transformation
    • Gibbs Thomson effect
    • Grain growth
    • Precipitate growth I

    • Precipitate growth II
    • Grain growth: Fan-Chen model I
    • Grain growth: Fan-Chen model II
    • Grain boundary grooving I
    • Grain boundary grooving II
    • Overview of phase field modelling

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