The book focuses on the effects of shock waves on vacancies and their clusters in fcc crystals. Keywords: Computer Modelling of Nanopores, Molecular Dynamics, Fcc Metals, Defect Structures in Crystals, Radiation Material Science, Nano-Engineering of Materials, Ultrasonic Treatment of Materials, Radiation Induced Defects, Vacancy Clusters, Shock Wave Effects, Radiation-Resistant Materials, Thermomechanical Processing, Energy Transfer Mechanism, Nanopore Nucleation, Nanopore Based Filters, Nanopore Based Detectors, Cooling Elements in Nano-Electronics.

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Cooperative effects arising in solids under the radiation exposure
  • 1.1 Radiation-dynamic effects
  • 1.2 Processes of pore formation in solids under irradiation
• 2. Computer experiment in condensed matter physics
  • 2.1 Methods of computer experiment on the microscale level
  • 2.2 Method of molecular dynamics
  • 2.3 Potentials of the interparticle interaction
  • 2.4 The methodology of computer experiments
• 3. Influence of cooperative atomic displacements on the processes of pore formation in crystals
  • 3.1 Modelling of the post-cascade shock wave and the initiation of low-temperature self-diffusion by it
  • 3.2 Pore formation under the influence of post-cascade shock waves
  • 3.3 Structural transformations of nanopores
  • 3.4 Enlargement of nanopores
  • 3.5 Dissolution of a nanopore near a free surface
  • 3.6 Peculiarities of structural transformations of a nanopore in a deformed computational cell
  • 3.7 Splitting of a nanopore in the grain boundary region
  • 3.8 Structural transformations of a nanopore of a cylindrical shape
• 4. Formation of nanopores in bimetallic particles under the influence of shock waves
  • 4.1 Influence of the post-cascade shock waves on the interphase boundary of bimetals
  • 4.2 The passage of shock waves through the interface of bimetallic particles
• Conclusions
• References
• Keyword index
• About the authors