Cellular automata simulation of site-saturated and constant nucleation rate transformations in three dimensions

Abstract

Microstructural evolution in three dimensions of nucleation and growth transformations is simulated by means of cellular automata. Two types of nucleation are considered: site-saturated nucleation and constant nucleation rate. The simulated microstrutural evolution agrees very well with exact analytical expressions. The simulated data also gives very good agreement with expressions derived to describe the evolution of the interfaces between transformed grains. © 2006.