Examples & Movies – Cyclic grain growth bands

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Oscillatory zoning predicted by cyclical grain boundary chemistry variations during grain growth. Note preferential widening of bands around triple junctions. Figure 1 Pattern after 200 time steps, pattern after 10,000 time steps. Note repeated truncations of the patterns. Mark Jessell