Phase-field model for liquid–solid phase transition of physical hydrogel in an ionized environment subject to electro–chemo–thermo–mechanical coupled field

• Main Authors: Wu, Tao, Li, Hua
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Mobile Ionic Species; Phase-field Model
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142597
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, a phase-field model is developed for simulation of the phase transition of physical hydrogels between the liquid solution and solid gel states in an ionized environment, subject to an externally applied electro-chemo-thermo-mechanical multiphysics coupled field. The presently develope...