Training 2015
This year's MatCalc course 'Thermodynamic and kinetic simulations with MatCalc' was held from Aug. 4-7 2015 at the Vienna University of Technology with 28 participants from both academia and industry.
Training 2015: "Thermodynamic and kinetic simulations with MatCalc"
Program
Tuesday (10:00 - 17:00)
- Welcome
- Introduction in MatCalc: GUI and first steps
- Theory: thermodynamic equilibrium, driving forces, databases, ...
- Practical training: How to create a workspace, simple equilibrium calculations, stepped calculations ...
- Practical training: Graphical representation of results, data export, ...
Wednesday (9:00 - 17:00)
- Scheil-Gulliver type calculations (theory and practice)
- T0- temperature (theory and practice)
- Using scripts in MatCalc (examples)
- Theory: Phase transformation and precipitation: Comparison of popular models (KJMA, parabolic growth, DICTRA, ...)
- Practice: How to set up precipitation kinetics simulations
- Theory: Introduction to the SFFK Model
Thursday (10:00 - 18:00)
- Theory: Nucleation theory and implementation into MatCalc
- Practice: Changing nucleation conditions: Ortho- / paraequilibrium nucleus composition, nucleation sites, etc.
- Practice: Simulation of heat treatments
- Theory: Treatment of interfacial energies.
- Theory and practice: Grain boundary precipitation versus random distribution: the importance of the correct diffusion field geometry
- Examples
Friday (8:30 - 14:30)
- Calculation of TTP-diagrams (theory and example)
- Discussion / analysis of practical examples of users
Foto gallery ...
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| With increasing number of participants... | ...we had to switch to the bigger classroom |
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| Ernst remained faithful to his MacBook | Simon and Lukas follow the instructions |
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| Clemens checks if all the settings were defined correctly | Gernot and Stephan are most happy with the outcome |
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| Bernhard and Stefan waiting for the results | Andreas and Eric wondering about the result meaning |
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| Roman and Abel waiting for the next coffee break | Sarah and Horst being after the coffee break |
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| Georg scans the progress of Raluca and Maria | Chang-Seok and Jiwon finding their way through GUI |
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| Martin, Christian and Thiemo found the exercise as easy | Wen Wen and Shoichi are surprised by the plot curve |
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| Georg and Johannes stumbled upon an error message | Armin contemplating the potential profits from the result |
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| Social evening was spent in the green ambience... | ... which was a nice place to relax |
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| Maria laughs at the German dish names read by Anton... | ...Michael reads these names translated into Korean... |
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| ...Harald let his smartphone play the pronunciation | The discussions continued long after the dinner... |