A multiple-scattering theory for the wind force in dilute substitutional alloys was applied  ab initio  to body-centered cubic metals. Results were presented for self-electromigration in alkali metals and in group-IIA, -IVA, -VA and -VIA metals. In many transition metals, the wind force acted in the direction of the electric field. This feature was in agreement with experiment, but had not been reproduced by previous simpler electronic structure models. The role which was played by vacancies in the scattering process, and led to a wind force at the initial position of a migrating atom, explained for V.

Electromigration in Dilute Body-Centred Cubic Alloys J.P.Dekker, A.Lodder: Journal of Physics - Condensed Matter, 1998, 10[30], 6687-706