Publications

Recent Journal Articles

Deformation assisted precipitation in binary alloys: A competition of time-scales, A. Mamaev, D. Burns, and N. Provatas
Phys. Rev. Materials (2025), [arXiv]

Generalizing the structural phase field crystal approach for modeling solid-liquid-vapor phase transformations in pure materials, Daniel L. Coelho, Duncan Burns, Emily Wilson, and Nikolas Provatas
Phys. Rev. Materials (2024), [arXiv]
Two dimensional phase field crystal study of thermo-density coupling: Thermal expansion, recalescence, and plasticity
Duncan Burns, Nikolas Provatas, and Martin Grant
Acta Materialia (2024)
Phase field crystal models with applications to laser deposition: A review
Duncan Burns, Nikolas Provatas, and Martin Grant
Structural Dynamics 11, 014101 (2024)
LeapFrog: Accelerating Multiscale Materials Simulations with Machine Learning
Damien Pinto, Michael Greenwood, and Nikolas Provatas
[arXiv preprint] (2024)

Consistent representation of vapor phases in phase field crystal dynamics
Matthew J. Frick, Emily Wilson, and Nikolas Provatas
Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 023405
Two-dimensional phase field crystal simulation of laser-induced recrystallization: A mechanism of grain-boundary phonon scattering and softening
Duncan Burns, Nikolas Provatas, and Martin Grant
Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 083402 (2023)
Hot cracking susceptibility prediction from quantitative multi-phase field simulations with grain boundary effects
Laishan Yang, Jing Yang, Fang Han, Zhihang Zhang, Qinghua Li, Zhibo Dong, Lei Wang, Nana Ofori-Opoku, and Nikolas Provatas
Acta Materialia (2023)
Analysis of the Self-Consistency of Nucleation in the Diffuse Interface Limit of Binary Alloy Phase Field Models
Alex Mamaev and Nikolas Provatas
Physica Scripta (2023)

Time-scale investigation with the modified phase field crystal method
Duncan Burns, Nikolas Provatas, and Martin Grant
Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 30 064001
Phase-field crystal model for materials with anomalous expansion during solidification and its application to the cavitation of supercooled water droplets
Paul Jreidini and Nikolas Provatas
Phys. Rev. Materials 6, 053404

Orientation Gradients in Rapidly Solidified Pure Aluminum Thin Films: Comparison of Experiments and Phase-Field Crystal Simulations
Paul Jreidini, Tatu Pinomaa, Jörg M. K. Wiezorek, Joseph T. McKeown, Anssi Laukkanen, and Nikolas Provatas
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 205701 (2021)
Capturing Dislocation Half-Loop Formation and Dynamics in Epitaxial Growth Atomistically at Diffusive Time Scales
Salvador Valtierra Rodriguez, Mathieu Frick, Nathaniel Quitoriano, Nana Ofori-Opoku, Nikolas Provatas, Kirk H. Bevan
Materialia Volume 20, 101253
Connecting the phase-field-crystal model of electromigration with electronic and continuum theories
Nan Wang, Hong Guo, and Nikolas Provatas
Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 115002 (2021)
Quantitative phase field simulations of polycrystalline solidification using a vector order parameter
Tatu Pinomaa, Nana Ofori-Opoku, Anssi Laukkanen, and Nikolas Provatas
Phys. Rev. E 103, 053310 (2021)
Improved multi-order parameter and multi-component model of polycrystalline solidification
Laishan Yang, Zhibo Dong, Lei Wang, and Nikolas Provatas
J. Mater. Sci. Technol. (2021)
Thermodynamics Model for Mechanochemical Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles: Implications for Solvent-Free Nanoparticle Production
Lin Yang, Audrey Moores, Tomislav Friščić, and Nikolas Provatas
ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 4, 1886 (2021)
Quantitative Phase Field Modelling of Solidification (book)
Nikolas Provatas, Tatu Pinomaa, and Nana Ofori-Opoku
CRC Press (2021)

Incorporating density jumps and species-conserving dynamics in XPFC binary alloys
Matthew J. Frick, Nana Ofori-Opoku, and Nikolas Provatas
Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 083404
Solute trapping in rapid solidification
Tatu Pinomaa, Anssi Laukkanen, and Nikolas Provatas
MRS Bulletin 45, 910 (2020)

Phase-field crystal modeling and classical density functional theory of freezing
K. R. Elder, Nikolas Provatas, J. Berry, P. Stefanovic, and Martin Grant
Phys. Rev. B 75, 064107 (2007)
Using the phase-field crystal method in the multi-scale modeling of microstructure evolution
Nikolas Provatas, J. A. Dantzig, B. Athreya, P. Chan, P. Stefanovic, N. Goldenfeld, and K. R. Elder
JOM 59, 83 (2007)

Multiscale Modeling of Solidification: Phase-Field Methods to Adaptive Mesh Refinement
Nikolas Provatas, Michael Greenwood, Badrinarayan Athreya, Nigel Goldenfeld, and Jonathan Dantzig
Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 19, 4525 (2005)