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Scaling behavior in corrosion and growth of a passive film

2007; American Physical Society; Volume: 76; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreve.76.011512

1550-2376

F. D. A. Aarão Reis, J. Stafiej,

Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films

We study a simple model for metal corrosion controlled by the reaction rate of the metal with an anionic species and the diffusion of that species in the growing passive film between the solution and the metal. A crossover from the reaction-controlled to the diffusion-controlled growth regime with different roughening properties is observed. Scaling arguments provide estimates of the crossover time and film thickness as functions of the reaction and diffusion rates and the concentration of anionic species in the film-solution interface, including a nontrivial square-root dependence on that concentration. At short times, the metal-film interface exhibits Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) scaling, which crosses over to a diffusion-limited erosion (Laplacian growth) regime at long times. The roughness of the metal-film interface at long times is obtained as a function of the rates of reaction and diffusion and of the KPZ growth exponent. The predictions have been confirmed by simulations of a lattice version of the model in two dimensions. Relations with other erosion and corrosion models and possible applications are discussed.