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Nikolas Provatas

Nikolas Provatas

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Materials Science

D-Index
41
Citations
7078
World Ranking
12695
National Ranking
220

Overview

Nikolas Provatas is affiliated with McGill University in Canada, with a research focus primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work spans key subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's main research topics include Solidification and crystal growth phenomena, Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties, nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions, Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics, Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes, High Temperature Alloys and Creep, and Metallurgy and Material Forming.

Provatas has contributed to numerous publications across several frequent venues, notably:

  • Physical Review Materials
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Acta Materialia
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Representative recent papers include:

  • Characterizing the microstructural effect of build direction during solidification of laser-powder bed fusion of Al-Si alloys in the dilute limit: A phase-field study (2021, Acta Materialia)
  • Controlling solid-liquid interfacial energy anisotropy through the isotropic liquid (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Dislocation density in cellular rapid solidification using phase field modeling and crystal plasticity (2021, International Journal of Plasticity)
  • Solute trapping in rapid solidification (2020, MRS Bulletin)
  • Orientation gradients in rapidly solidified pure aluminum thin films: comparison of experiments and phase-field crystal simulations (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))

Provatas frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Tatu Pinomaa
  • Anssi Laukkanen
  • Duncan Burns
  • Nana Ofori-Opoku
  • Michael Greenwood

Best Publications

  • Phase-Field Methods in Materials Science and Engineering

    Nikolas Provatas;Ken Elder

  • Phase-field crystal modeling and classical density functional theory of freezing

    K. R. Elder;Nikolas Provatas;Joel Berry;Joel Berry;Peter Stefanovic

  • Phase-Field Methods in Materials Science and Engineering: PROVATAS:PHASE-FIELD O-BK

    Nikolas Provatas;Ken Elder

  • Efficient Computation of Dendritic Microstructures Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement

    Nikolas Provatas;Nigel Goldenfeld;Jonathan Dantzig

  • Phase-field crystals with elastic interactions.

    Peter Stefanovic;Mikko Haataja;Nikolas Provatas

  • Phase field crystal study of deformation and plasticity in nanocrystalline materials.

    Peter Stefanovic;Mikko Haataja;Nikolas Provatas

  • Phase-field simulation of solidification morphology in laser powder deposition of Ti-Nb alloys

    V. Fallah;V. Fallah;M. Amoorezaei;N. Provatas;S.F. Corbin

  • Cluster evolution mechanisms during aging in Al–Mg–Si alloys

    Vahid Fallah;Brian Langelier;Nana Ofori-Opoku;Babak Raeisinia

  • Using the phase-field crystal method in the multi-scale modeling of microstructure evolution

    N. Provatas;J. A. Dantzig;B. Athreya;P. Chan

  • Amplitude expansion of the binary phase-field-crystal model.

    K. R. Elder;Zhi Feng Huang;Nikolas Provatas

  • The significance of spatial length scales and solute segregation in strengthening rapid solidification microstructures of 316L stainless steel

    Tatu Pinomaa;Tatu Pinomaa;Matti Lindroos;Martin Walbrühl;Nikolas Provatas

  • Modeling structural transformations in binary alloys with phase field crystals

    Michael Greenwood;Michael Greenwood;Nana Ofori-Opoku;Jörg Rottler;Nikolas Provatas

  • Phase-field-crystal dynamics for binary systems: Derivation from dynamical density functional theory, amplitude equation formalism, and applications to alloy heterostructures.

    Zhi Feng Huang;K. R. Elder;Nikolas Provatas

  • Atomic-scale pathway of early-stage precipitation in Al–Mg–Si alloys

    Vahid Fallah;Andreas Korinek;Nana Ofori-Opoku;Babak Raeisinia

  • A quantitative multi-phase field model of polycrystalline alloy solidification

    Nana Ofori-Opoku;Nikolas Provatas

  • Solidification microstructure simulation of Ti-6Al-4V in metal additive manufacturing: A review

    Jinghao Li;Xianglin Zhou;Mathieu Brochu;Nikolas Provatas

  • Liquid channel segregation and morphology and their relation with hot cracking susceptibility during columnar growth in binary alloys

    Lei Wang;Lei Wang;Nan Wang;Nikolas Provatas

  • Orientation selection in solidification patterning

    Morteza Amoorezaei;Sebastian Gurevich;Nikolas Provatas

  • Quantitative phase field modeling of solute trapping and continuous growth kinetics in quasi-rapid solidification

    Tatu Pinomaa;Tatu Pinomaa;Nikolas Provatas

  • Multiscale modeling of polycrystalline graphene: A comparison of structure and defect energies of realistic samples from phase field crystal models

    Petri Hirvonen;Mikko M. Ervasti;Zheyong Fan;Morteza Jalalvand;Morteza Jalalvand

  • Structural phase field crystal approach for modeling graphene and other two-dimensional structures

    Matthew Seymour;Nikolas Provatas

  • Kinetics of scrap melting in liquid steel

    Jianghua Li;Geoffrey Brooks;Nikolas Provatas

  • Defect stability in phase-field crystal models: Stacking faults and partial dislocations

    Joel Berry;Joel Berry;Nikolas Provatas;Nikolas Provatas;Jörg Rottler;Chad W. Sinclair

Frequent Co-Authors

Tapio Ala-Nissila
Tapio Ala-Nissila Aalto University
Jeffrey J. Hoyt
Jeffrey J. Hoyt McMaster University
Mohsen Mohammadi
Mohsen Mohammadi University of New Brunswick
Mikko Karttunen
Mikko Karttunen University of Western Ontario
Tomislav Friščić
Tomislav Friščić University of Birmingham
Jussi Timonen
Jussi Timonen University of Jyväskylä
Samuel Forest
Samuel Forest Mines ParisTech
Matthias Militzer
Matthias Militzer University of British Columbia
Y. Zhou
Y. Zhou University of Waterloo
François Léonard
François Léonard Sandia National Laboratories

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