NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF CELLULAR/DENDRITIC PRIMARY SPACING
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF CELLULAR／DENDRITIC PRIMARY SPACING

1.IntroductionHeat, mass and momentum transports during solidification determine the structures and segregation of the solidified alloys, on which modeling of structure forming in solidification can be based. There weresomeresearchesonmodelingofcellularordendriticprimaryspacingandpatterns1-5],inwhichtheinterfaceshapesandstabilityhadbeentheoreticallyinvestigated,butconvectionwasnotconsidered.One of the interesting problems in this literature lies in the effects of convection on crystal growth;…