Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau type Multiphase Field for description of shock-induced Phase Transition

Phase-field models have become popular in last two decades to describe a host of free-boundary problems. The strength of the method relies on implicitly describing the dynamics of surfaces and interfaces by continuous scalar field that enter in the global grand free energy functional of the system. We adapt this method in order to describe shock-induced phase transition. To this end we make use of the Multiphase Field Theory (MFT)\footnote{I. Steinbach et al., Physica 94D, 135 (1996)} to account for the existence of multiple phases during the transition. In this talk I will initially describe the constitutive equations that couple the dynamic of the phase field with that of the thermodynamic fields like T, P, c etc. I will then give details on developing a thermodynamically consistent phase-field interpolation function for multiple-phase system in the context of shock-induced phase-transition. At the end I will briefly comment on relating the dynamics of the interfaces in the shock/ramp compression to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang\footnote{M. Kardar et al., Phys. Rev. Let 56, 889 (1986)} equation.