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The heat flow control is an important link in directional solidification. Mathematical model for unidirectional solidified ingot with multiple sets of cooling system was established. Temperature field and flow field influenced by traditional water-cooled stool and improved one during solidification of a 45 t was carried out by using ProCAST software. The results of temperature distribute and fl...

Solidification thermal parameters, such as growth rate, cooling rate and dendrite arm spacing ( ), have been measured in a hypoeutectic Al-Mg alloy directionally solidified under upward and downward transient heat flow conditions. The experimental setup used in this work consists of a water-cooled mould with heat being extracted from the bottom or the top, promoting upward and downward directio...

Research involving the interaction of flow with morphological instability during directional solidification of binary alloys is reviewed. In general, flow may arise during the solidification process from thermal and solutal buoyancy, changes in density upon solidification, thermocapillary forces at free boundaries, or external forcing of the system. We focus primarily on the last of these, givi...

The formation of regular patterns is a common feature of many solidification processes involving cast materials. We describe here how regular patterns can be obtained in porous alumina and hydroxyapatite (HAP) by controlling the freezing of ceramic slurries followed by subsequent ice sublimation and sintering, leading to multilayered porous ceramic structures with homogeneous and well-defined a...

A numerical investigation of directional binary alloy solidification processes is presented. In particular, a mathematical model is developed to study macrosegregation patterns as a consequence of thermal-solutal convection in the melt and mushy zone. A good understanding of the basic mechanisms of macrosegregation is helpful in designing and controlling solidification processes in order to ach...

We describe the behavior m directional solidification of the faceted smectic-A smectic-B interface of 408 (butyloxybenzihdene octylaniline) Above the onset of instability, which is given by the classical constitutional-supercooling cntenon, we observe the nucleation of macrosteps Several mechanisms are possible, depending on the velocity These macrosteps are always unstable and propagate along ...