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Growth and Coarsening

Ostwald Ripening in Material Processing

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Lorenz Ratke

    1. Institute for Space Simulation, German Aerospace Center DLR, Cologne, Germany

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  2. Peter W. Voorhees

    1. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

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  • First coherent publication of these important phenomena in materials processing

Part of the book series: Engineering Materials (ENG.MAT.)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
    Pages 1-6

  3. Thermodynamics of alloys

    • Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
    Pages 7-41

  4. Transport of heat and mass

    • Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
    Pages 43-55

  5. Growth

    • Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
    Pages 57-95

  6. Statistics of growth

    • Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
    Pages 97-115

  7. Coarsening — Basics and Growth Laws

    • Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
    Pages 117-126

  8. Ostwald ripening — Wagner analysis

    • Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
    Pages 127-150

  9. Ostwald ripening — Marqusee and Ross type analysis

    • Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
    Pages 151-165

  10. Multiparticle diffusion analysis

    • Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
    Pages 167-203

  11. Nucleation, Growth and Coarsening

    • Lorenz Ratke, Peter W. Voorhees
    Pages 205-224

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 225-295
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100 years after the first observation of ripening by Ostwald and 40 years after the first publication of a theory describing this process, this monograph presents, in a self-consistent and comprehensive manner, all the bits and pieces of coarsening theories so that the main issues and the underlying mathematics of self-similar coarsening of dispersed systems can be understood. It contains all of the background material necessary to understand growth and coarsening of spherical particles or droplets in a liquid or solid matrix. Some basic knowledge of heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics and differential equations would be helpful, but not necessary, as all the concepts required are introduced. The text is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as for researchers. Rather than giving a complete survey of the field, it presents a careful derivation of the existing results and places them into some perspective.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Space Simulation, German Aerospace Center DLR, Cologne, Germany

    Lorenz Ratke

  • Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

    Peter W. Voorhees

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