Universal energy transport law for dissipative and diffusive phase transitions

We present a scaling law for the energy and speed of transition waves in dissipative and diffusive media. By considering uniform discrete lattices and continuous solids, we show that—for arbitrary highly nonlinear many-body interactions and multistable on-site potentials—the kinetic energy per densi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nadkarni, Neel, Daraio, Chiara, Abeyaratne, Rohan, Kochmann, Dennis M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101979
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-1538