Project 4. Morphological Instabilities of Deposited Thin-Film Wires
Abstract
We introduce a marker particle method for the computation of 3D solid morphologies
evolving by surface diffusion. The method does not use gridding of surfaces or
numerical differentiation, and applies to surfaces with finite slopes and overhangs.
We demonstrate the method by computing the evolution of perturbed cylindrical wires
on a substrate.
Fig. 1. Solid wire deposited on a substrate, in equilibrium. R0 is used as length scale.
Publications:
1. M. Khenner, Harris Wong,
``A tangent-plane, marker-particle method for the computation of 3D solid surfaces evolving on a substrate", submitted.