Nana Ofori-opoku - McMaster Experts

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Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

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- Quantitative Phase Field Modelling of Solidification
chapters
- Microstructural Evolution of Dilute Al–Si Alloy Deposited on As-Cast Al–Cu Structure in the Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Process. 1665-1669. 2025
- Modeling the Interface of Aluminum Alloys in Selective Laser Melting. 1653-1655. 2025
conferences
- Phase-Field Simulation of Solidification Behavior of AlSi10Mg Alloys Manufactured Through Direct Metal Laser Sintering. Minerals, Metals and Materials Series. 299-307. 2020
journal articles
- Investigation of charge transfer models on the evolution of phases in lithium iron phosphate batteries using phase-field simulations. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13:2849-2858. 2025
- Heat treatment, microstructure, texture, and mechanical properties of electron beam melted Ti6Al4V. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1006. 2024
- Benchmarking machine learning strategies for phase-field problems. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 32:065019-065019. 2024
- Hot cracking susceptibility prediction from quantitative multi-phase field simulations with grain boundary effects. Acta Materialia. 250:118821-118821. 2023
- Deformation mechanism in the mechanical response of nano polycrystalline HCP Zr and Zr-2.5 Nb: An atomistic study. Materials Today Communications. 33:104440-104440. 2022
- State of the art of fuel micro-mechanical modelling: From atomic scale to engineering laws in fuel performance codes. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 572:154034-154034. 2022
- Atomistic modeling of Σ3 twin grain boundary in alloy 800H. Computational Materials Science. 212:111573-111573. 2022
- Modelling the growth and evolution of statistically significant populations of intergranular fission gas bubbles by IPM. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 566:153777-153777. 2022
- Introducing density variation and pressure in thermodynamically self-consistent continuum phase-change models including phase-field. Physical Review Materials. 6:043805. 2022
- Simple Method of Including Density Variation in Quantitative Continuum Phase-Change Models. Physical Review Letters. 128:075701. 2022
- Capturing Dislocation Half-Loop Formation and Dynamics in Epitaxial Growth Atomistically at Diffusive Time Scales. Materialia. 20:101253-101253. 2021
- 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. Acta Materialia. 214:116983-116983. 2021
- Quantitative phase field simulations of polycrystalline solidification using a vector order parameter. Physical Review E. 103:053310. 2021
- Incorporating density jumps and species-conserving dynamics in XPFC binary alloys. Physical Review Materials. 4. 2020
- Multiscale Mesoscale Modeling of Porosity Evolution in Oxide Fuels. Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science. 6. 2020
- Capturing the dynamics of Wigner crystals within the phase-field crystal method. Physical review B (PRB). 100. 2019
- Electrical Stressing Induced Monolayer Vacancy Island Growth on TiSe₂. Nano Letters. 18:2179-2185. 2018
- Simulation and analysis of γ-Ni cellular growth during laser powder deposition of Ni-based superalloys. Computational Materials Science. 144:256-264. 2018
- Quantitative 3D phase field modelling of solidification using next-generation adaptive mesh refinement. Computational Materials Science. 142:153-171. 2018
- Self-consistent modeling of anisotropic interfaces and missing orientations: Derivation from phase-field crystal. Physical Review Materials. 2:https-//doi.org/10.1103/physrevmaterials.2.083404. 2018
- On the primary spacing and microsegregation of cellular dendrites in laser deposited Ni–Nb alloys. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 25:065002-065002. 2017
- Incorporating Noise Quantitatively in the Phase Field Crystal Model via Capillary Fluctuation Theory. Physical Review Letters. 117:220601. 2016
- Cluster evolution mechanisms during aging in Al–Mg–Si alloys. Acta Materialia. 103:290-300. 2016
- Calculating the role of composition in the anisotropy of solid-liquid interface energy using phase-field-crystal theory. Physical Review E. 92:042405. 2015
- Addendum to: “Atomistic investigation of clustering phenomenon in the Al–Cu system: Three-dimensional phase-field crystal simulation and HRTEM/HRSTEM characterization” [Acta Mater. 61 (2013) 6372–6386]. Acta Materialia. 83:470-472. 2015
- Atomic-scale pathway of early-stage precipitation in Al–Mg–Si alloys. Acta Materialia. 82:457-467. 2015
- Characterization of late-stage equiaxed solidification of alloys. Acta Materialia. 77:183-190. 2014
- Atomistic investigation of clustering phenomenon in the Al–Cu system: Three-dimensional phase-field crystal simulation and HRTEM/HRSTEM characterization. Acta Materialia. 61:6372-6386. 2013
- Complex order parameter phase-field models derived from structural phase-field-crystal models. Physical review B (PRB). 88. 2013
- Atomistic Modeling of Solidification Phenomena Using the Phase-Field-Crystal Model. JOM. 65:1103-1110. 2013
- Simulation of early-stage clustering in ternary metal alloys using the phase-field crystal method. Acta Materialia. 61:3653-3666. 2013
- Multicomponent phase-field crystal model for structural transformations in metal alloys. Physical review B (PRB). 87. 2013
- Phase-field-crystal model of phase and microstructural stability in driven nanocrystalline systems. Physical Review E. 86:066706. 2012
- Phase-field crystal modeling of early stage clustering and precipitation in metal alloys. Physical review B (PRB). 86. 2012
- Phase field crystal modeling of early stage precipitation and clustering 2012
- Modeling structural transformations in binary alloys with phase field crystals. Physical review B (PRB). 84. 2011
- A quantitative multi-phase field model of polycrystalline alloy solidification. Acta Materialia. 58:2155-2164. 2010
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