Growth and Coarsening: Ostwald Ripening in Material Processing

1. Introduction.- 2. Thermodynamics of alloys.- 3. Transport of heat and mass.- 4. Growth.- 5. Statistics of growth.- 6. Coarsening - Basics and Growth Laws.- 7. Ostwald ripening - Wagner analysis.- 8. Ostwald ripening - Marqusee and Ross type analysis.- 9. Multiparticle diffusion analysis.- 10. Nucleation, Growth and Coarsening.- A. Droplet and particle motion.- A.1 Some basic fluid dynamic equations.- A.2 Solid sphere moving in a gravity field.- A.3 Droplet moving in a gravity field.- A.4 Thermocapillary convection and motion.- B. Nucleation.- B.1 Thermodynamics of nucleation.- B.2 Kinetic theory of nucleation.- B.2.1 Stationary nucleation rate.- B.2.2 Time dependent nucleation.- B.3 Heterogeneous nucleation.- List of Variables.