Conclusions and Future Work:
Conclusions:
As we can observe from the structures we obtain due to surface anisotropy, we can use this method to develop materials whose surface tension depends on temperature and thereby by having preferential heating on the surface in such a way that we have a temperature distribution around the surface in a Sinusoidal form, then we can develop various polygonal shapes with various orientations.
This method can be also be used in thin film manufacturing as we observed in the first case when we have a pear shaped thin film forming from a spherical particle. Hence by having a particle in its vapor and by suitable controlling the temperature to indirectly control the surface tension we can grow thin film materials.
Future Work:
1)In this project I have only looked into 2-D simulation of the evolution. It will be interesting to see how a 3-D structure will evolve.
2)We can develop more functions for surface anisotropy which can be practically implemented by applying suitable temperature gradients and hence obtain some more interesting shapes.
