David R. Jones

A new Fermi kinetic phase transition model for metals including hysteresis effects

We present a new phenomenological model for phase transformation (PT) kinetics in metals, the "Fermi Kinetic Phase Transition (KPT) Model". It is designed such that it captures the main macroscopic features of our previously developed micro-structure dependent model, but at a fraction of the computational cost of the latter. Using four model parameters, the Fermi KPT model performs better than other phenomenological PT kinetics models in the literature, as shown by our present comparisons to experimental data for iron and tin.