This site is ***very old*** (obviously). For updates see the MIT DMSE WEBSITE

Image (circa 1990) evolving under Cahn-Hilliard equation. Click on image to see Allen-Cahn kinetics.

Image (circa 2005) with scaled pixel values in 3D, see my course Mathematics for Materials Science and Engineering (Sophomore Undergraduate) Lecture 15 for code

W. Craig Carter
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
MacVicar Fellow
MIT, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
13-4053 77 Massachusetts Ave,
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
617-253-6048 (please don't call, but send email)
ccarter@mit.edu

Most Publications (many with abstracts)

Kinetics of Materials: Robert Baluffi, Samuel Allen, W. Craig Carter (Wiley)

Errata for Kinetics of Materials may be found in link below

Course Web Pages

• Thermodynamics (Sophomore Undergraduate)
• Kinetics (First Year Graduate)
• Mathematics for Materials Science and Engineering (Sophomore Undergraduate)

• Visualization of Crystal Structures and Diffraction Patterns

The World Famous Poetry of Thermodynamics Website

• OOF and PPM2OOF, Software for calculating properties from complex microstructures,
• (HTML) Paper on Anisotropic Surfaces and Thermodynamics, that isn't read by enough people in my opinion and here is a pdf of same.
• Paper on Use of Surface Evolver in Materials Science, that is generally hard to find
• Recent paper on calculation of evolution in faceted crystals
• Variational Methods for microstructural evolution
• Phase field simulations of polycrystalline evolution
• Wulffman, software for exploring crystal shapes

  Most Publications (some with abstracts)