1 - Curves
1.1 - Preliminary definitions
1.2 - Convex curves
1.3 - Integrals
1.4 - Piecewise-smooth curves
1.5 - Infinitesimally wrinkled curves
2 - Evolving curves
2.1 - Definitions
2.2 - Transport identities
2.3 - Integral identities
2.4 - Steadily evolving interfaces
2.5 - Piecewise-smooth evolving curves
2.6 - Variational lemmas
3 - Phase regions, control volumes, and inflows
3.1 - Phase regions and control volumes
3.2 - Inflows, the pillbox lemma, and infinitesimally thin evolving control volumes
4 - Balance of forces
4.1 - Balances of forces
4.2 - The power identity
5 - Energetics and the dissipation inequality
6 - Constitutive theory
6.1 - Constitutive equations and the compatibility theorem
6.2 - Balance of capillary forces revisited; corners
7 - Digression: Statistical theory of interfacial stability; convexity, the Frank diagram, and corners; Wulff regions
7.1 - Preliminaries; Polar diagrams
7.2 - Convexity; the extended and convexified energies, and the Frank diagram
7.3 - Stability
7.4 - Instability of the total energy
7.5 - Equilibria of the total energy; Wulff regions
7.6 - Wulff's theorem
8 - Evolution equations for the interface: basic assumptions
8.1 - Isotropic interface
8.2 - Anisotropic interface
8.2.1 - Basic equations
8.2.2. - Equations when the interface is the graph of a function
8.2.3 - Equations when the interface is a level set
8.3 - Plan of the next few chapters
9 - Stationary interfaces and steadily evolving interfaces
9.1 - Stationary interfaces
9.2 - Steadily evolving facets
9.3 - Steadily evolving interfaces that are not flat
10 - Global behaviour for an interface with stable energy
10.1 - Existence of evolving interfaces from a prescribed initial curve
10.2 - Growth and decay of the interface
10.3 - Evolution of curvature; fingers
11 - Unstable interfacial energies and interfaces with corners
11.1 - Admissibility; corner conditions
11.2 - The initial-value problem
11.3 - Facets and wrinklings that connect evolving curves
11.4 - Equations near a corner when the curve is a graph
11.5 - Interfaces with arbitrary angle-set; infinitesimal wrinklings
11.6 - Stationary interfaces and steadily evolving interfaces with corners
12 - Non smooth interfacial energies: crystalline energies
12.1 - Crystalline energies
12.2 - The Wulff region
12.3 - The capillary force at preferred orientations
12.4 - Corners between preferred facets
12.5 - Crystalline motions
12.6 - Interfaces of arbitrary orientation, infinitesimal wrinklings, and generalized motions
12.7 - Evolution of a rectangular crystal
13 - Regularized theory for smooth unstable energies; dependence of interfacial energy on curvature
13.1 - Balance of forces and moments; power
13.2 - Energetics and the dissipation inequality
13.3 - Constitutive equations
13.4 - Evolution equations for the interface
13.5 - Linearized equations; spinodal decomposition on the interface
14 - Review of single-phase thermodynamics
14.1 - Basic equations and the first two laws
14.2 - Constitutive equations and thermodynamic restrictions
14.3 - The heat equation
15 - Thermodynamics of two-phase systems
15.1 - Basic quantities and the first two laws
15.2 - Local forms of the interfacial laws
16 - Constitutive theory
16.1 - Constituive equations for the bulk material
16.2 - The transition temperature
16.3 - Constitutive equations for the interface
17 - Free-boundary problems
17.1 - Bulk equations and interface conditions
17.2 - Initial conditions and boundary conditions
17.3 - Free-boundary problems near the transition temperature for weak surfaces
17.3.1 - Approximate interface conditions
17.3.2 - Approximate free-boundary problems
17.3.3 - The first two laws for the approximate theories
17.3.4 - Growth theorems
17.3.5 - Perfect conductors
18 - Instabilities induced by supercooling the liquid phase
18.1 - The one-dimensional problem: growth of the solid phase
18.2 - Instability of a flat interface