Mullins–Sekerka stability analysis for melting-freezing waves in helium

A mechanical theory for crystallization of a rigid solid in a liquid melt : melting-freezing waves

Thermodynamics of freezing and melting

Although the freezing of liquids and melting of crystals are fundamental for many areas of the sciences, even simple properties like the temperature-pressure relation along the melting line cannot be predicted today. Here we present a theory in which properties of the coexisting crystal and liquid phases at a single thermodynamic state point provide the basis for calculating the pressure, densi...

Pre-freezing and Pre-melting

When attempts are made to interpret the solid-liquid transition in terms of molecular structure, highly significant information can emerge from phemomena of pre-melting and pre-freezing. Empirically, on approaching the transition between solid and liquid, characteristic parameters of the phase under examination may show an accelerated rate of change, in the sense of a premonition of the change ...

Asymmetric melting and freezing kinetics in silicon.

Freezing and melting criteria in non-equilibrium

Using non-equilibrium computer simulations, it is shown that various phenomenological criteria for melting and freezing hold not only in equilibrium but in steady-state non-equilibrium as well. In particular, we study the steady state of charge-polydisperse Brownian particles shaken by a time-dependent oscillatory electric field. Among these criteria are the Lindemann melting rule, the Hansen–V...