Hello Fenics users,
I am trying to study Polymer Crystallization using the phase field technique. I don’t consider myself to be an expert programmer so the notion of coding a finite element model from scratch seems to be both silly and not conducive to me ever graduating with a PhD in any reasonable amount of time. I am also looking at a code called PRISMS-PF which is implemented in C++ that I am comparatively less proficient in (I would consider myself a fairly proficient Python programmer). The system that I am looking to simulate would be a coupled Allen-Cahn and and Heat equation system. But I have learned that the code I’m trying to use may not be able to simultaneously solve the heat-transfer and Allen-Cahn equation that turns out to be very important when modeling polymer crystallization. From what I know about Fenics, it seems to be VERY extensible and could be well suited to solve problems like this. I’ve seen a few posts implementing phase field models for other applications, but not crystallization. Is that something that could be done? Ideally I’d like a model that could capture the fact that the amorphous phase of the polymer and the crystalline phase of the polymer would have different heat transfer coefficients. I’ve already spent a ton of time researching this other code, but if it can’t handle this aspect, then it might be a complete dealbreaker, so any advice would be most useful.
Thanks!
Erik