Publisher's Synopsis
Materials science is a growth area for applied mathematics in the United States. This is the fourth in a series of monographs sponsored by the Electronic, Magnetic and Photonic Materials Division of TMS, and it contains modern mathematical methods presented in a tutorial way through the joint efforts of both mathematicians and materials scientists.;Coverage includes: surface evolver as a tool for materials science research; edge-energy minimizing surfaces; the thermal stability of alloys having a periodic minimal surface microstructures; real-space lattice statics description of a random lattice; computer simulations of phase decomposition in real-alloy systems based on a discrete-type diffusion equation; on the physics of self-organizing microstructual evolution; the mathematics of processing for material microstructuring; and modelling and control of advanced chemical vapour deposition processes.
