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Computational Materials Science: The Simulation of Materials Microstructures and Properties

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This book is one of the few texts dedicated solely to computational materials sciece; exclusive of topics in computational chemistry/physics (spectroscopy, band structure, brillouin zone scattering, diffraction, etc...). As such, their is only a brief coverage of quantum mechanics and related topics such as density functional theory, quantum Monte Carlo, Green's functions, etc... This is why I gave it four stars instead of five. With this exception, the book does a great job of covering simulations across all time/spatial scales from dislocation dynamics, finite element modeling, cellular automata, etc...

This is a perfect textbook for a senior level/graduate computational materials science classes that exclude quantum mechanics. The amount of math is enough for readers to know the important equations; but there are no tedious derivations.

The book also lists important applications and publications for each type of modeling. I would not purchase this book though because it is authored in 1998, which is ancient history compared to when I am writing this review (2004)with respect to the field of computational materials science.