Multispecies epitaxial growth on vicinal surfaces with chemical reactions and diffusion

DOI10.1098/rspa.2005.1495zbMath1255.80021MaRDI QIDQ5428318

Paolo Cermelli, Michel E. Jabbour

Publication date: 21 November 2007

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2005.1495

zbMATH Keywords

step flow; adparticle diffusion; anisotropic edge kinetics and energetics; multispecies epitaxy; step and terrace chemical reactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35K57: Reaction-diffusion equations

82D25: Statistical mechanics of crystals

35Q92: PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences

80A32: Chemically reacting flows

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

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