11-01-9314-vl Theoretical Methods in Materials Science

Instructors: Prof. Dr. Karsten Albe; Apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Yuri Genenko

Event type: Lecture

Org-unit: Dept. 11 - Institute of Materials Science

Displayed in timetable as: Theor.Mat.Sci.

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Language of instruction: Englisch

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Course Contents:

• Landau theory of phase transitions
  
• Criticallity
  
• Phase transitions
  
• Statistical models for describing phase transitions
  
• Cahn-Hilliard and Allen-Cahn equations
  
• Phase-field method
  
• Ising Model
  
• Molecular Dynamics
  
• Thermodynamic integration
  
• Monte-Carlo Methods
  
• Kineitc Monte Carlo
  

Literature:

• D. Kondepudi, I. Prigogine, Modern Thermodynamics: From heat engines to dissipative structures, Wiley (1998)
  
• D. C. Wallace, Thermodynamics of Crystals, Dover (1998)
  
• R.K. Pathria, Statistical Mechanics, Elevier Butterworth-Heinemann (2005)
  
• Rob Philips, Crystals, Defects and Microstructures, Cambridge (2001)
  
• Alexander K. Tagantsev, L. Eric Cross and  Jan Fousek, Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films, Springer 2010
  
• M.E. Lines and A.M. Glass, Principles and Application of Ferroelectrics and Related Materials, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977
  
• S. Yip (ed.), Handbook of Materials Modelling, Springer, 2005
  

Expected Number of Participants:
80

Official Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to theoretical concepts relevant in materials science for
describing and modeling properties and processes on the atomistic and continuum scale.