PhD manuscripts

The following PhD manuscripts resulted from research at the Microstructure Simulation Lab Leuven 

2025

• Effect of anisotropy in interface energy on nucleation during film growth and its impact on texture evolution, Martin Minar.

2024

• Chemistry of corrosion products in lead-bismuth cooled nuclear systems: oxides and intermetallics of iron, nickel and manganese, Aleksandr Tsybanev. 

• Two innovative frameworks for microstructural simulation: The high-driving-force phase-field model and Molecular Statics Defect Characterization Framework, Vincent Feyen.

• From non-reactive to reactive wetting at high temperatures, Youqing Sun.

• Study of microstructure evolution in solid AlCrFeNi multi-principle element alloys using phase-field simulations, Xiaojing Zuo.

2022

• Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Reactive Wetting of Liquid Aluminium on Solid Nickel Substrate, Ensieh Yousefi.

• Development of Strategies to Perform Phase-Field Microstructure Simulations Combined with Thermodynamic and Kinetic Data for Multi-principal Element Alloys, Yuri Amorim Coutinho.

2021

• Phase-field simulations of interdiffusion microstructures in elastically stressed multicomponent multiphase alloys, Sourav Chatterjee.

2020

• Intermetallic Compound Formation in Scaled Solder Joints used for 3D Silicon-to-silicon Stacking , Lin Hou.

2018

• Modeling and simulation of microstructural coarsening in polycrystalline materials, Vishal Yadav.

2017

• Processing induced changes of mechanical stresses in and near Cu Through Silicon Vias (TSVs): A Finite Element Modelling Study, Nabi Nabiollahi.

• Metal Droplet Entrainment by Solid Particles in Slags: A Combined Phase Field-Experimental Approach, Inge Bellemans.

• Phase diagram assessment and alloy characterization of ternary Mg rich Mg-Si-Ca and Mg-Si-Sr alloys for biomedical applications, Andrea Isabel Gil Santos

2016

• In-situ observation and phase-field simulation of crystallization and dissolution phenomena in CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 slags, Jingjing Liu.

2015

• Methodology Development and Experimental Determination of the Origin of Sticking Copper Droplets in Pyrometallurgical Slags, Evelien De Wilde.

• Development of a method to determine the solubility ranges of intermetallic compounds in metal-metal connections, Yuanyuan Guan.

• Development of an elastoplastic phase-field model for multi-phase systems, Durga Ananthanarayan.

2014

• 3D phase-field simulations of sintering and coarsening in polycrystalline multi-phase materials, Hamed Ravash.

2012

• Thermodynamic and kinetic description of nanowires and nanowires growth, Yann Eichhammer.

2011

• Isothermal crystallization of metallurgical slags : Phase field simulations combined with in situ experiments, Jeroen Heulens

2010

• Acceleration strategies for phase field simulation of grain growth in polycrystalline materials, Liesbeth Vanherpe

2006

•  Phase-field simulations of grain growth in materials containing second-phase particles, Nele Moelans