A numerical model is developed to describe the flow and heat transfer behavior of liquid metals in a cold delivery tube during gas atomization. Numerical calculations for liquid In, Sn, Bi, Pb, Zn and Sb are performed to investigate the influence of processing parameters and material properties on the flow and cooling of the liquid metals, and to predict the minimum melt superheat that is neces...

in this study, the slurry polymerization of ethylene over ticl4/mgcl2/alet3 was obtained. firstly, to obtain the optimum value of [al]/[ti], the effect of [al]/[ti] on polymerization rate and catalyst yield was studied. also, the effect of catalyst content on yielding, crystallization, melting point and density of product were obtained. to determine the order of reaction, the monomer pressure w...

Investigations for the melt growth gallium-antimonide (GaSb) semiconductor crystals are underway at the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Hanscom Air Force Base by the vertical gradient freeze (VGF) method utilizing a submerged heater. Electromagnetic stirring can be induced in the gallium-antimonide melt just above the crystal growth interface by applying a weak radial electric current in th...

In the past two decades, the repair and reconstruction of musculoskeletal tissues using biodegradable scaffold materials has emerged as one of the most promising approaches in tissue engineering. The aim of this study is to process, via hot melt extrusion, the biodegradable and biocompatible polymeric materials; poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), ⍺lactose monohydrate and p...

Motion of growing dendrites is a common phenomenon during solidification but often neglected in numerical simulations because of the complicate underlying multiphysics. Here a phase-field model incorporating dendrite-melt two-phase flow is proposed for simulating the dynamically interacted process. The proposed model circumvents complexity to resolve dendritic growth, natural convection and sol...

[1] Dunites in the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite represent conduits for chemically isolated melt transport through the shallow mantle beneath oceanic spreading centers. These dunite melt conduits exhibit a scale-invariant power law relationship between width and cumulative abundance, as measured over 4 orders of magnitude. We use this size/frequency distribution to assess several hypothe...

A variety of parts in microsystems technology are manufactured by injection moulding of polymeric materials. In Particular the high cooling velocity affects negatively the process and the resulting part properties. The scope of this paper is to investigate the influence on the reachable flow length in injection moulding of different polymeric materials. The results indicate that the mould tempe...

It has long been recognised that at elevated temperatures surface energy is the driving force for the distribution of melts and fluids among crystalline grains. While for ideal isotropic systems only two parameters, the dihedral angle (the ratio of grain boundary energy to solid-liquid surface energy) and the melt fraction are needed to completely constrain the melt distribution, anisotropic sy...