Diffusion-controlled lengthening of Widmanstätten plates Original Research Article

Various treatments of the diffusion-controlled lengthening of plates during precipitation from a supersaturated solid solution are compared numerically. Serious doubts are raised about the validity of Trivedi’s treatment which has been generally accepted. A recent treatment based directly on Ivantsov’s solution gives results in between those of Trivedi’s equation and Zener’s equation, as modified by Hillert.