TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulation of Spherulite Growth Using a Comprehensive Approach to Modeling the First-Order Isotropic/Smectic-A Mesophase Transition
AU - Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir & Alejandro D. Rey
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 2
SP - 301
EP - 316
PY - 2010
DA - 2010/02
SN - 7
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.2009.08.201
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7630.html
KW - 
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">A comprehensive modeling and simulation study of the first-order isotropic/smectic-A transition is presented and applied to phase diagram computation
and two-dimensional spherulite growth. An approach based on nonlinear optimization,
that incorporates experimental data (from 12CB, dodecyl-cyanobiphenyl), is used
to determine physically realistic model parameters. These parameters are then used in
conjunction with an optimized phase diagram computation method. Additionally, a
time-dependent formulation is presented and applied to the study of two-dimensional
smectic-A spherulite growth. These results show the growth kinetics and defect dynamics
of nanoscale smectic-A spherulite growth in an isotropic phase with an initially
radial layer configuration.</p>