VanDerWaalsFreeEnergy.C

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#include "VanDerWaalsFreeEnergy.h"
 
registerMooseObject("PhaseFieldApp", VanDerWaalsFreeEnergy);
 
template <>
InputParameters
validParams<VanDerWaalsFreeEnergy>()
{
  InputParameters params = validParams<GasFreeEnergyBase>();
  params.addClassDescription("Free energy of a Van der Waals gas.");
  params.addRequiredParam<Real>("a",
                                "Van der Waals coefficient a (default mass_unit_conversion "
                                "requires this to be in [eV*Ang^3])");
  params.addRequiredParam<Real>("b",
                                "Van der Waals molecular exclusion volume b (default "
                                "mass_unit_conversion requires this to be in [Ang^3])");
  params.addParam<Real>("log_tol",
                        0.1,
                        "The logarithm in the free energy is evaluated using a Taylor expansion "
                        "below this value. This allows formulating free energies for systems where "
                        "the molecular volume is smaller than the exclusion volume b.");
  return params;
}
 
VanDerWaalsFreeEnergy::VanDerWaalsFreeEnergy(const InputParameters & parameters)
  : GasFreeEnergyBase(parameters),
    _a(getParam<Real>("a")),
    _b(getParam<Real>("b")),
    _log_tol(getParam<Real>("log_tol"))
{
  // Definition of the free energy for the expression builder
  EBFunction free_energy;
  free_energy(_c, _T) =
      -_n * _kB * _T * (plog(_nq * (1.0 / _n - _b), _log_tol) + 1.0) - _n * _n * _a;
 
  // Parse function for automatic differentiation
  functionParse(free_energy);
}