2019
November 15, 2019: 4D ICE member Shivani Vemulapalli presented a poster at the MORE symposium.
October 2, 2019: 4D ICE was well represented at the Materials Science & Technology 2019 meeting in Portland with Ankita Roy, Rahul Raghavan, William Farmer, and Dr. Ankit presenting at the oral sessions.
August 16, 2019: Dr. Ankit will present an invited talk focused on phase-field modeling of geomaterials at the Materials Science & Technology 2019 organized in Portland, Oregon.
August 12, 2019: Our article “Influence of melt convection on the morphological evolution of seaweed structures: Insights from phase-field simulations” accepted in Computational Materials Science.
July 24, 2019: Our article “3-D phase-field simulations of self-organized composite morphologies in physical vapor deposited phase-separating binary alloys” accepted in the Journal of Applied Physics.
March 12, 2019: Dr. Ankit presented an invited talk at the TMS Annual Meeting 2019 organized at San Antonio, Texas.
2018
November 29, 2018: Dr. Ankit and Prof. Martin Glicksman (Florida Tech) win the 2018 Robert W. Cahn prize for their paper titled “Measuring Solid-Liquid Interfacial Energy Fields: Diffusion-Limited Pattern”. Follow the news on Twitter.
September 19, 2018: Our article “Mechanisms of pearlitic spheroidization: Insights from 3D phase-field simulations” accepted in Acta Materialia. Weblink
August 10, 2018: Our article “Analyzing the cooperative growth of intermetallic phases with a
curved solidification front” accepted in Acta Materialia. Weblink
July 25, 2018: Dr. Ankit presented an invited talk at the World Congress on Computational Mechanics 2018 (WCCM) in the New York City.
July 11, 2018: Our article “Three‐Dimensional Phase‐field Investigation of Pore space Cementation and Permeability in Quartz Sandstone” published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth.
July 9-13, 2018: We organized a minisymposium titled Recent advances in phase-field modeling and analysis of microstructural evolution at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science 2018 (MS 18) in Portland, OR.
June 13, 2018: Our grant application titled “4D Characterization of Damage in Interconnects: Experiment and Simulation” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
May 24, 2018: Our NASA-PSI grant application titled “Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Crystal Growth Dynamics” has been accepted for funding. Here is the news release.
May 23-24, 2018: Dr. Ankit presented invited talks at the two IITs (Indian Institute of Technology) located in Kanpur and Varanasi.
April 20, 2018: Our article “Measuring Solid-Liquid Interfacial Energy Fields: Diffusion-Limited Pattern” published in the Journal of Materials Science. Weblink
April 20, 2018: 4D ICE member Timoteo Diaz presented the keynote talk at the FURI symposium. He was selected on a competitive basis from a pool of 155 FURI students to present his research on self-assembly of block copolymers. Tim also presented at the FURI poster session.
March 13, 2018: Our article “Electromigration-induced surface drift and slit propagation in polycrystalline interconnects: Insights from phase-field simulations” published in Physical Review Applied.
February 27, 2018: Our article “Phase-field simulations of pearlitic divergence in Fe-C-Mn steels” published in Acta Materialia. Weblink
February 22, 2018: Our research finding features in FoundryMag. Weblink
February 1, 2018: EurekAlert, the news distribution service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, puts up a press release to report our research finding. Weblink
2017
December 22, 2017: We are organizing a mini-symposium at the upcoming SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science 2018 (MS 18). View the flyer.
December 6, 2017: Our article “Detection of Capillary-Mediated Energy Fields on a Grain Boundary Groove: Solid-Liquid Interface Perturbations” published in the open access journal – Metals. Weblink
November 5, 2017: Our article “Growth direction selection of tilted dendritic arrays in directional solidification over a wide range of pulling velocity: A phase-field study” published in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Weblink
June 5, 2017: Invited talk at Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2017) at San Diego.
April 26, 2017: Dr. Ankit is appointed as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in School for Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy at the Arizona State University. The appointment begins in Fall 2017. Congratulations!
March 28, 2017: Invited seminar in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
March 6, 2017: Invited seminar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station.
February 21, 2017: Invited seminar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisville, Kentucky.
February 16, 2017: Invited seminar in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy, Arizona State University.
February 7, 2017: Invited seminar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University, California.