Dieter M. Herlach is currently a senior scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne as Head of the working group "Undercooling of Materials" and Professor of Physics at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He gained his PhD from the Technical University Aachen in 1981 and joined the DLR two years later. In 1991 he finished his Habilitation at the Ruhr-University Bochum where he became Full Professor of Physics in 2001.Dieter M. Herlach has been chairman of various working groups at the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Physical Society (DPG), a consultant or honorary professor at various Chinese universities, and a visiting professor at Harvard University, USA. Professor Herlach has organized 16 workshops, symposia and conferences, is co-editor of Advanced Engineering Materials, and also has five books, four patents and over 280 journal publications to his name.

PART I: ThermodynamicsPHASE FORMATION IN MULTICOMPONENT MONOTECTIC AL-BASED ALLOYSLIQUID-LIQUID INTERFACIAL TENSION IN MULTICOMPONENT IMMISCIBLE AL-BASED ALLOYSMONOTECTIC GROWTH MORPHOLOGIES AND THEIR TRANSITIONSTHERMAL EXPANSION AND SURFACE TENSION OF MULTICOMPONENT ALLOYSPART II: Microscopic and Macroscopic DynamicsMELT STRUCTURE AND ATOMIC DIFFUSION IN MULTICOMPONENT METALLIC MELTSDIFFUSION IN MULTICOMPONENT METALLIC METS NEAR THE MELTING TEMPERATUREPHASE BEHAVIOR AND MICROSCOPIC TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN BINARY METALLIC ALLOYS: COMPUTER SIMULATION STUDIESMOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODELING OF ATOMIC PROCESSES DURING CRYSTAL GROWTH IN METALLIC ALLOY MELTSPART III: Nd-Fe Based AlloysPHASE-FIELD SIMULATIONS OF Nd-Fe-B: NUCLEATION AND GROWTH KINETICS DURING PERITECTIC GROWTHINVESTIGATIONS OF PHASE SELECTION IN UNDERCOOLED MELTS OF Nd-Fe-B ALLOYS USING SYNCHROTRON RADIATIONEFFECT OF VARYING MELT CONVECTION ON MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION OF Nd-Fe-B AND Ti-Al PERITECTIC ALLOYSPART IV: Solidification and SimulationSOLIDIFICATION OF BINARY ALLOYS WITH COMPOSITIONAL STRESSES ¿ A PHASE-FIELD APPROACHELASTIC EFFECTS ON PHASE TRANSITIONS IN MULTI-COMPONENT ALLOYSMODELING OF NONISOTHERMAL MULTI-COMPONENT, MULTI-PHASE SYSTEMS WITH CONVECTIONPHASE-FIELD MODELING OF SOLIDIFICATION IN MULTI-COMPONENT AND MULTI-PHASE ALLOYSDENDRITE GROWTH AND GRAIN REFINEMENT IN UNDERCOOLED MELTSDENDRITIC SOLIDIFICATION IN THE DIFFUSE REGINE AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF BUOYANCY-DRIVEN MELT CONVECTION

Bringing together the concerted efforts of the multicomponent materials community in one decisive reference work, this handbook covers all the important aspects from fundamentals to applications: thermodynamics, microscopic processes, solidification, simulation and modeling. As such, it provides a vital understanding of melt and solidification processes, treating all simulation techniques for continuous and discrete systems, such as molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, and finite elements calculations.