Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 33, No. 4, April 2002, page 1131


Statistical Theory of Normal Grain Growth Revisited

A. Gadomski, J. Luczka

In this paper, we discuss three physically relevant problems concerning the normal grain growth process.These are: Infinite versus finite size of the system under study (a step towards more realistic modeling); conditions of fine-grained structure formation, with possible applications to thin films and biomembranes, and interesting relations to superplasticity of materials; approach to log-normality, an ubiquitous natural phenomenon, frequently reported in literature. It turns out that all three important points mentioned are possible to be included in a Mulheran--Harding type behavior of evolving grains-containing systems that we have studied previously.

PACS numbers: 05.40.--a, 64.60.--i, 81.10.Jt


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