Workshop on applications of computational thermodynamics : Schloβ Ringberg, November 30–December 5, 1997

Computational thermodynamics is applied to two important and closely related phenomena in phase transformations, namely nucleation and coarsening. In both phenomena the surface energy plays a key role. The effect of surface energy on a two-phase equilibrium as well as the activation energy for forming a critical nucleus are both derived for the general multicomponent case. A simplified coarsening equation is derived for the general multicomponent case.