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The thermodynamic extremal principle is used for the treatment of the evolution of a binary system under the assumption that all phases in the system are nearly stoichiometric with no sources and sinks for vacancies in the bulk. The interfaces between the individual phases are assumed to act as ideal sources and sinks for vacancies, and to have an infinite mobility. Furthermore, it is assumed that several phases are nucleated in the contact plane of the diffusion couple at the beginning of the computer experiment. Then, it is shown that the number of newly nucleated phases determines the maximum number of polyfurcations (i.e., branching of a single configuration into several distinct configurations) of the initial contact (Kirkendall) plane. The model is demonstrated on a hypothetical binary system with four stoichiometric phases. The inverse problem, namely, the determination of the tracer diffusion coefficients in newly nucleated phases from the thicknesses of new phases and the positions of polyfurcated Kirkendall planes, is treated too.
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Svoboda, J., Gamsjäger, E., Fischer, F.D. et al. Modeling of kinetics of diffusive phase transformation in binary systems with multiple stoichiometric phases. JPED 27, 622–628 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736564
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