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Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3A1-L10 Phase Boundaries and Anisotropy Via Multiple-Order Theory for an Fcc Alloy(European Mathematical Society Publishing House, 2003) Tanoğlu, Gamze; Braun, Richard J.; Cahn, John W.; McFadden, Geoffrey B.The dependence of thermodynamic properties of planar interphase boundaries (IPBs) and antiphase boundaries (APBs) in a binary alloy on an fcc lattice is studied as a function of their orientation. Using a recently developed diffuse interface model based on three non-conserved order parameters and the concentration, and a free energy density that gives a realistic phase diagram with one disordered phase (A1) and two ordered phases (L12 and L10) such as occur in the Cu-Au system, we are able to find IPBs and APBs between any pair of phases and domains, and for all orientations. The model includes bulk and gradient terms in a free energy functional, and assumes that there is no mismatch in the lattice parameters for the disordered and ordered phases.We catalog the appropriate boundary conditions for all IPBs and APBs. We then focus on the IPB between the disordered A1 phase and the L10 ordered phase. For this IPB we compute the numerical solution of the boundary value problem to find its interfacial energy, γ as a function of orientation, temperature, and chemical potential (or composition). We determine the equilibrium shape for a precipitate of one phase within the other using the Cahn-Hoffman "-vector" formalism. We find that the profile of the interface is determined only by one conserved and one non-conserved order parameter, which leads to a surface energy which, as a function of orientation, is "transversely isotropic" with respect to the tetragonal axis of the L10 phase. We verify the model's consistency with the Gibbs adsorption equation.Article Citation - WoS: 13Citation - Scopus: 15Analysis of a Corner Layer Problem in Anisotropic Interfaces(Southwest Missouri State University, 2006) Alikakos, N. D.; Bates, P. W.; Cahn, J. W.; Fife, P. C.; Fusco, G.; Tanoğlu, GamzeWe investigate a model of anisotropic diffuse interfaces in ordered FCC crystals introduced recently by Braun et al and Tanoglu et al [3, 18, 19], focusing on parametric conditions which give extreme anisotropy. For a reduced model, we prove existence and stability of plane wave solutions connecting the disordered FCC state with the ordered Cu3Au state described by solutions to a system of three equations. These plane wave solutions correspond to planar interfaces. Different orientations of the planes in relation to the crystal axes give rise to different surface energies. Guided by previous work based on numerics and formal asymptotics, we reduce this problem in the six dimensional phase space of the system to a two dimensional phase space by taking advantage of the symmetries of the crystal and restricting attention to solutions with corresponding symmetries. For this reduced problem a standing wave solution is constructed that corresponds to a transition that, in the extreme anisotropy limit, is continuous but not differentiable. We also investigate the stability of the constructed solution by studying the eigenvalue problem for the linearized equation. We find that although the transition is stable, there is a growing number 0(1/ε), of critical eigenvalues, where 1/ε ≫ 1 is a measure of the anisotropy. Specifically we obtain a discrete spectrum with eigenvalues λn = ε2/3 μn with μn ∼ Cn2/3, as n → +∞. The scaling characteristics of the critical spectrum suggest a previously unknown microstructural instability.