Coarsening kinetics with elastic effects

We discuss the coarsening process of melt inclusions inside a solid phase. Elastic effects lead to an oblate shape of the particles, resulting in a sy stem with strong diffusional and elastic interactions between inclusions. T he usual mean-field approximation breaks down and several independent lengt h scales have to be taken into account. In a system of parallel oriented pa rticles we find scaling laws for the coarsening of the different length sca les involved. In particular, the lateral size of the particles obeys a nont rivial growth law, R similar to t(5/12).