Molecular dynamics study of the influence of supercooling temperature and orientation of the crystallization front on its velocity in silver

The molecular dynamics method was used to study the influence of the supercooling temperature and the orientation of the crystallization front relative to the growing crystal on the front velocity in silver. According to the data obtained, the crystallization velocity with an increase in the supercooling temperature does not increase monotonically, but has a maximum at about 0.7-Tm (Tm is melting temperature), after which it gradually decreases, which is explained by a decrease in the diffusion mobility of atoms in the amorphous phase. Crystallization proceeds faster with the orientation of the front plane (100), slower - with the (110) and (111) orientations.