Continuum thermodynamics of ferroelectric domain evolution: Theory, finite element implementation, and application to domain wall pinning

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Phase-field modeling of crack propagation in piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials with different electromechanical crack conditions (2012, methodology): “To account for domain switching, we follow the phase-field model of ferroelectric domain evolution proposed by Zhang and Bhattacharya (2005) and Su and Landis (2007).”
Phase-field modeling of hydraulic fracture (2016, methodology): “The phase-field methodology has emerged as a powerful tool for modeling the evolution of microstructures and the interactions of defects in a wide range of materials and physical processes([54-58]).”
Exploiting Microstructural Instabilities in Solids and Structures: From Metamaterials to Structural Transitions (2017, background): “For example, in ferroelectrics v 1⁄4 p denotes the ferroelectric polarization vector [260,261,269] and w is a multiwelled potential having 2d symmetric minima in d dimensions (whose symmetry is broken by an applied electric field).”