Toward a Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Two-Phase Materials

摘要

The classical theory of Stefan, for the melting of a solid or the freezing of a liquid, is far too simplistic to account for the myriad of phenomena which occur during solidification (an example being dendritic growth, in which simple shapes evolve to complicated tree-like structures). Recent attempts to rectify this situation involve replacing the classical free boundary condition. Thermodynamics, Reprints. (mjm)