Rececnt progress on the phase field modeling of interfacial problems
Speaker: Qiang Du
(Willaman Professor of Mathematicvs and Professor of Materials Science, Penn State University)

We present some recent works on the phase field modeling and simulation of interface problems, ranging from microstructure evolution in multicomponenet alloy to vesicle membrane deformation and interaction in fluid. We illustrate the effectiveness of the phase field modeling through careful analysis, extensive numerical simulations and comparisons with experiments. We discuss the latest development of highly adaptive computational algorithms for the large scale phase field simulations. We also address how to effectively retrieve useful statistical information within the phase field framework.