Course Name: Diffusion in Multicomponent Solids

Course abstract

Diffusion is the fundamental process controlling most of the phase transformations and hence, is of great interest through both theoretical and application perspectives. Knowledge of diffusion behavior of materials is essential for control as well as design of new processes. Moreover, most of the industrially important systems are based on three or more components and thus, the understanding of diffusion in multicomponent systems is particularly of greater interest. This course will treat both the phenomenology and atomic theory of diffusion in multicomponent systems. In most of the first half, the course will cover the phenomenological aspect of diffusion, which is more important practically as it deals with usage of phenomenological diffusion coefficients for modeling various diffusion-driven processes as well as actual determination of these coefficients. Major part of the later half will focus on understanding the theoretical aspect of diffusion including atomic mechanisms of diffusion, fundamental driving forces for diffusion and dependence of phenomenological diffusion coefficients on atomic jump frequencies and thermodynamic factors. All the concepts and treatments will be explained in the context of both binary and multicomponent effects in diffusion. At the end of the course, the student should be able to describe diffusion in dilute as well as concentrated multicomponent alloys in terms of multicomponent diffusion coefficients, solve the diffusion equation for various processes, identify the various types of diffusion coefficients and select the appropriate type for a given model, understand the physical significance of these coefficients, evaluate these coefficients theoretically for some model systems and know the various methodologies of their experimental determination.


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Prof. Kaustubh Kulkarni

I finished my PhD from Purdue University on the topic of multicomponent diffusion. Post my PhD, I worked in Industry for four years before joining IIT Kanpur in 2012. My research mainly focusses on understanding of multicomponent effects in diffusion kinetics and applying those for designing advanced materials and processes. The cross effects in diffusion mainly originate from thermodynamic interactions and hence, developing correlations between the multicomponent diffusion effects and thermodynamic properties is an integral part of my research. While working on this, I have developed a passion for teaching both Materials Thermodynamics and Diffusion in Solids. This course is an attempt to take the multicomponent effects in diffusion, which so far have been discussed only within restricted community of researchers working on diffusion, to the broader audience of metallurgical and materials engineering.
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 Course Duration : Jan-Apr 2022

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 Enrollment : 14-Nov-2021 to 31-Jan-2022

 Exam registration : 13-Dec-2021 to 18-Mar-2022

 Exam Date : 24-Apr-2022

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