Training 2014
This year's MatCalc course 'Thermodynamic and kinetic simulations with MatCalc' was held from Aug. 5-8 2014 at the Vienna University of Technology with 16 participants from both academia and industry.
Training 2014: "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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| Once again, we met in our course room... | ...where Rainer (right, standing) supervised the hardware. |
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| As usual, Ernst was happy to supervise everything else. | Johannes is ready for the exercises |
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| Arianna brought us a huge load of smile from Italy... | ...and got an immediate support from Mamta. |
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| Johan clicking through his way to the solution | Baptiste remains sceptic about the result |
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| Nobuyoshi seems confused... | ... but Salar is satisfied with the outcome. |
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| Can you guess what Yoshiharu is thinking about? | Christoph is proud about his performance |
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| Hongcai is done with his calculation | Jayaram is apparently in the good mood |
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| Bernadette is delighted with the obtained curves | Sabine is dreaming about the course certificate |
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| Lin is focused on solving the problem... | ... and Alice is studying the documentation |
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| At evening, we ate the dinner at Otto Wagner Schützenhaus | Alice has found something delicious, hasn't she? |
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| Rainer is still taking his choice, Georg (right) enjoys the view | '... and then a big paw out of the river grasped at my beer...' |
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| The moonlight illuminated the banks of Donaukanal... | ...and the lights on the Ringturm tip predicted a good weather |
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| Later on, discussions continued. As Matthias served the wine... | ...all stresses got dissipated at the maximum rate possible. |