Kinetics of Phase Transitions

Providing a comprehensive introduction with the necessary background material to make it accessible for a wide scientific audience, this text is a timely discussion of current developments in domain-growth kinetics. The book combines pedagogical chapters from various leading experts in this area and focuses on incorporating experimentally relevant effects such as disorder, strain fields, and wetting surfaces into studies of phase ordering dynamics. In addition, it highlights topics garnering recent interest, such as the growth of nanostructures on surfaces. The book also provides a comprehensive overview of numerical techniques that have proven useful in studying these complex nonlinear problems.