TY - JOUR T1 - Phase Field Models Versus Parametric Front Tracking Methods: Are They Accurate and Computationally Efficient? JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 2 SP - 506 EP - 555 PY - 2014 DA - 2014/02 SN - 15 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.190313.010813a UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7104.html KW - AB -

We critically compare the practicality and accuracy of numerical approximations of phase field models and sharp interface models of solidification. Here we focus on Stefan problems, and their quasi-static variants, with applications to crystal growth. New approaches with a high mesh quality for the parametric approximations of the resulting free boundary problems and new stable discretizations of the anisotropic phase field system are taken into account in a comparison involving benchmark problems based on exact solutions of the free boundary problem.