Kozeschnik, E. (2022). Mean-Field Microstructure Kinetics Modeling. In Encyclopedia of Materials: Metals and Alloys (pp. 521–526). Elsevier Inc. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819726-4.00055-7
High-performance metallic materials are generally complex, in terms of their hierarchical microstructure as well as the wanted and unwanted microstructural features that determine their ultimate properties. The features governing the performance of polycrystalline materials are typically the morphology and properties of planar defects, such as, interfaces (grain/subgrain/twin etc., boundaries), dislocations or point defects, such as impurity atoms, atomic clusters or precipitates. In this article, a comprehensive set of weakly coupled mean-field models is reviewed, which is provided through the thermokinetic software package MatCalc. They can be used as a toolbox for microstructure kinetics modeling in multi-component multi-phase technical alloys.