A 2D Simulation of Grain Boundary Geometry for Normal Grain Growth

This paper proposed a new 2D method to simulate the microstructure for normal grain growth of polycrystalline materials. In this method, the sample was discretized into geometry points and a straightforward geometric construction was implemented to estimate whether the current point was located at the interior of a certain grown grain. The ceramics material was assumed isotropic; furthermore, the single-phase and two-phase systems without pores were discussed respectively. So each grain core would grow up at the same velocity in all directions until it met another growing core in single-phase systems, while in two-phase systems, there would be two sorts of cores with different growing velocities. The ratio of these different velocities was the key factor of the sample microstructures after sintering. The simulation results and the analysis showed that the proposed method agree well with the experimental observation.