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FerroX is a massively parallel, 3D phase-field simulation framework for modeling ferroelectric materials based scalable logic devices.
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Add strain contribution to the total energy density #11

Open prkkumar opened 2 years ago

prkkumar commented 2 years ago

We currently ignore the contribution of strain to the total energy density in the TDGL equation. The strain energy can be computed as a function of polarization using equation 4 and 5 in https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.1377855

We can add this as follows:

  1. Create a new function to compute strain energy with polarization as input.
  2. Add the strain contribution to the function that computes TDGL RHS
jackieyao0114 commented 1 year ago

The static strain can be solved in a similar way as the electrostatic fields, i.e. solving Poisson equation, except that strain is a 3x3 tensor. Here is another nice reference: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359645413006617