Morphological modeling of polymer solidification

A physical model of semicrystalline polymer solidification is proposed, along with an outline of general theoretical aspects of morphological modeling. Computational modeling, based on the proposed envelop evolution equation associated with a primary nucleation model and the elastic energy equation of the lamellae director field, predicts the nucleation-growth processes, domain patterns and internal lamellae organization of spherulitic structures in semicrystalline polymer solidification. Results of computer simulation are reported and compared with experimental observations.