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The phase field method is developed on the basis of Ginzburg-Landau phase transition theory, and its core idea is to introduce a continuously changing order parameter to transform the sharp interface problem into the diffusion interface problem, and then describe the dynamic process driven by the thermodynamic potential with a specific physical mechanism through differential equations. Finally, the microstructure and evolution rules of the system with time were obtained by numerical solution. With the rapid development of computer and numerical simulation technology and the gradual completion of material thermodynamic data and dynamic theory, phase field model has developed rapidly in the simulation of material microstructure, and has played an increasingly important role in the design and development of materials. In recent years, the phase-field method has played an increasingly important role in revealing the microstructure evolution, mechanical properties, corrosion failure, multiferroicity, dielectric breakdown and other aspects of materials under complex service environments, and has become a complete research chain of the whole process from materials to structural parts, and a key factor in realizing the transformation from "experimental optimization" to "system optimization".

Scope

Advances in phase field theory and its applications

Integrated computational materials engineering

Application of phase field method in material simulation

Research on material multi-scale simulation technology

Manuscript Requirements

Original research papers or reviews; It is accepted after peer review by our journal

Process Arrangement

Submission deadline: April 30, 2025

Proposed publication date: September 30, 2025

Submission site

http://www.rmme.ac.cn/rmme/ch/index.aspx

https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/rmme

Column

2025 Phase Field Method-Integrated Computational Material Engineering

Contact

0086-029-86231117

Guest Editor-in-Chief: ZHAO Yuhong

Zhao Yuhong, professor and doctoral supervisor of University of Science and Technology Beijing/North University of China, was selected as the National High-level Talent Program, National Outstanding Teacher, National Hundred Million Talents, and representative of the 13th National Women's Congress. Director of the Collaborative Innovation Center for the development and Application of Aluminum and Magnesium Materials jointly built by the Ministry of Education, and director of Shanxi Key Laboratory for Advanced Casting of New Materials. Executive Director of Solidification Science and Technology Branch of Chinese Society of Materials Research, Vice chairman of Shanxi Metal Society, vice chairman of Shanxi Foundry Society, founder of Phase Field Method - Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (PFM-ICME) forum. He has long been engaged in multi-scale research on solidification aging phase transformation and liquid forming of advanced materials. Dedicated to phase field theory modeling and liquid forming process and device, applied to solidification/aging structure control, high-performance material design, process macro and micro digital intelligence and additive manufacturing. He has published more than 300 academic papers in Sci Adv, Prog Mater Sci, npj Comput Mater, Acta Mater, MRS Bulletin, JMST, JMA, IJP and other journals, and has won 6 first prizes of provincial and ministerial level and industry science and technology awards.

Guest Editor

ZHANG Lijun, male, professor of Central South University, doctoral supervisor, national four youth talents, has won the German Humboldt scholar, Hunan Outstanding Youth Fund, etc., is now the deputy secretary general of the Computational Materials Branch of the Chinese Society for Materials Research, and the deputy editor of the international journal Frontier in Materials. Advanced Powder Materials and other 10 domestic and foreign publications editorial board/young editorial board. He is mainly engaged in the design, preparation and processing of advanced structural materials and application research. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals such as Acta Materialia. He has won the first prize of Natural Science in Hunan Province, the second prize of Science and Technology Progress in Guangdong Province, and the special prize of the third NFSOC Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award of China Non-Ferrous Metals Society.

SHI Rongpei, professor and doctoral supervisor of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), winner of National Outstanding Youth Science Fund (Overseas) (2021). He received his PhD in engineering from Ohio State University in 2014, and worked as a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) from 2017 to 2021. He has been engaged in the research work of metal structural material design, integrated calculation and multi-scale and multi-physical field coupling numerical simulation of laser additive manufacturing for a long time. He has published more than 100 articles in internationally renowned journals (including 24 in Acta Materialia, a top journal in the field of metals), and the papers have been cited more than 3,700 times. H-index: 34;   Served as the long-term academic advisor of TMS Journal JOM, Material Informatics, Young editorial board member of JMST Journal and other academic positions, organized seminars on phase transformation, microstructure simulation and additive manufacturing in many international conferences and served as the branch chairman; He was awarded the paper Award of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Young Scientist of the 2015 International Conference on Solid-State Phase Transformation.

HUNAG Houbing is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology. His research field is phase field simulation of material microstructure evolution. He has published more than 200 SCI papers, including 6 in science or Nature. Won the national Youth Talent project funding, MAO Yisheng Youth Science and Technology Award, has hosted the Natural Science Fund, National defense Basic Science Challenge program, Beijing "Youth Lift Project" and so on. He is the executive director of the Council of "Phase Field and Integrated Computing Materials Engineering Conference", member of the Youth Working Committee of Chinese Silicate Society, director of Beijing Silicate Society, Mater. Research Lett. Young editorial board member.

Hong Zijian is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at Zhejiang University. He received his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 2017 and is a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University from 2017 to 2020. Since August 2020, he has been working in the School of Materials of Zhejiang University as a researcher of the "100 People Plan". He is mainly engaged in computational materials science research, including phase field simulation, machine learning, etc. He has published more than 50 papers and been cited more than 3,000 times. He is currently in charge of two National Natural Science Foundation projects and one major project of Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation. He is the director of Special Ceramics Branch of Chinese Silicate Society and the deputy director of Advanced Materials Center of Taizhou Research Institute of Zhejiang University.

Xing Hui, associate professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, is mainly engaged in theoretical and applied research on prediction and regulation of mesoscopic structures of metal materials based on phase field method. By establishing a universal diffusion interface simulation method similar to Stefan problem, he explores common scientific problems in the formation of mesoscopic structures of metal materials. It has revealed the dynamic laws of the formation and evolution of the dynamic structure of the interface of materials, and has been applied to the fields of directional solidification of alloys, laser additive manufacturing, particle synthesis of precious metal catalysts, metal corrosion, etc. It has published more than 100 SCI index papers in important domestic and foreign journals in this field, and published a textbook of Computational Physics. As the second completed person, he won the first prize of Basic Research achievements of the Chemical Industry Society of China in 2019 and the first prize of Natural Science of the Granular Society of China in 2018, and presided over more than 10 projects such as the National Nature Foundation project and the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province.

Sun Dongke, male, Member of the Communist Party of China, Doctor of engineering, professor of Southeast University, doctoral supervisor, National Science and Technology Award evaluation expert. Research includes complex fluid flow, solidification process simulation, mesoscopic numerical methods, machine learning and fusion computing. He has presided over and participated in 15 national, national defense, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, and published 97 SCI papers in Acta Mater., Appl. Phys. Lett., Int.J. Heat Mass Transfer and other journals. He has organized The Lattice Boltzmann Method and its Application Conference, the 2nd Phase Field and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering Conference, and The 8th ICPNS (Seattle), and won the first prize of Natural Science of China Granular Society in 2018 and the first prize of Basic Research achievements of China Chemical Society in 2019.

Liu Wenbo is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi 'an Jiaotong University. He received his PhD from Tsinghua University in 2015. His research interests include phase field simulation of microstructure evolution of nuclear materials, solid phase transformation of metal materials and interface control. In recent years, he has presided over 4 National Natural Science Foundation projects and 5 provincial and ministerial level projects, published more than 80 SCI papers, authorized 6 invention patents, served as the young editorial board member of Rare Metal Materials and Engineering, and won one Invention Innovation Award and one achievement award of China Invention Association. Guest editor's message