Training 2016
This year's MatCalc course 'Thermodynamic and kinetic simulations with MatCalc' was held on Aug. 2-5 2016 at the Vienna University of Technology with 15 participants from both academia and industry.
Training 2016: "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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| Lecture room is full of eager students... | ...assisted by Martin and Piotr |
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| Ernst is passing the MatCalc principles | Duancheng, Carina, Thomas and Paul are doing the exercises |
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| Fabian, Christian and Kevin are listening to the theory part | Philipp, Hojun and Chitta are running their simulation |
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| Stefano. Daniel and Bernhard are waiting for the result | Andrey and Ali are wondering about the outcome |
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| Martin is helping to find what went wrong | The group gathers after the hard working day... |
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| .to get some refreshment in the evening... | ...and exchange their impressions |
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| After the sunset the fun part continued... | ...on the bank of Donaukanal |