Alain Karma

Research interests

Publications

• Growth competition of columnar dendritic grains: A phase-field study

  Acta Materialia · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2014.08.049

• Laws of crack motion and phase-field models of fracture

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2008.10.012

• Phase-field crystal study of grain-boundary premelting

  Physical Review B · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.78.184110

• Solidification microstructures and solid-state parallels: Recent developments, future directions

  Acta Materialia · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2008.10.020

• A Rabbit Ventricular Action Potential Model Replicating Cardiac Dynamics at Rapid Heart Rates

  Biophysical Journal · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1529/biophysj.106.98160

• Orientation selection in dendritic evolution

  Nature Materials · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1693

• From Pulsus to Pulseless

  Circulation Research · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1161/01.res.0000224540.97431.f0

• Crystal-melt interfacial free energies in hcp metals: A molecular dynamics study of Mg

  Physical Review B · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.73.024116

• The Dynamics of Cardiac Fibrillation

  Circulation · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.104.529545

• Phase-field modeling of binary alloy solidification with coupled heat and solute diffusion

  Physical Review E · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.69.051607

• Quantitative phase-field model of alloy solidification

  Physical Review E · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.70.061604

• Phase-Field Simulation of Solidification

  Annual Review of Materials Research · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.matsci.32.101901.155803

• Evolution of nanoporosity in dealloying

  Nature · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35068529

• Method for Computing the Anisotropy of the Solid-Liquid Interfacial Free Energy

  Physical Review Letters · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.5530

• Phase-Field Model of Mode III Dynamic Fracture

  Physical Review Letters · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.87.045501

• Mechanisms for Discordant Alternans

  Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1540-8167.2001.00196.x

• Phase-Field Formulation for Quantitative Modeling of Alloy Solidification

  Physical Review Letters · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.87.115701

• Solidification microstructures: recent developments, future directions

  Acta Materialia · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1359-6454(99)00287-6

• Modeling Melt Convection in Phase-Field Simulations of Solidification

  Journal of Computational Physics · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1999.6323

• Vortex dynamics in three-dimensional continuous myocardium with fiber rotation: Filament instability and fibrillation

  Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.166311

• Quantitative phase-field modeling of dendritic growth in two and three dimensions

  Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.57.4323

• Phase-field method for computationally efficient modeling of solidification with arbitrary interface kinetics

  Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.53.r3017

• Electrical alternans and spiral wave breakup in cardiac tissue

  Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.166024

• Physical Mechanism of Grain Refinement in Solidification of Undercooled Melts

  Physical Review Letters · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.73.1380

• Spiral breakup in model equations of action potential propagation in cardiac tissue

  Physical Review Letters · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.1103

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