Progress and development trends in the numerical modeling of solidification

Remarks on the recent progress of Materials Genome Initiative

“…The experimental techniques evolve from traditional and practical tools to measurements in a high-throughput scale and at sub-Å ngstrom resolution and picometer precision [3,4]. The computational methods include first-principles calculations [5,6], molecular dynamic simulations [7], phase-field method [8,9], computational thermodynamics [10,11] and kinetics [12], computational mechanics, the finite element analysis and many more [13,14]. The databases [15][16][17] for multi-component engineering materials are in fact a comprehensive summary and careful discrimination of all experimental and computational results, and in turn improve the efficiency of further experiments and promote the accuracy of calculations by implementing more reasonable model parameters.…”