Formation of Faceted Spirals during Directional Eutectic Solidification

Directional solidification of metal-gas eutectic and fabrication of regular porous metals

Directional solidification of metal-gas eutectic (Gasar) is a novel process for making regular porous metals. This process is based on a solid-gas eutectic reaction involving a gaseous medium and a metal or a ceramic phase, and allows an easy control of the porosity, such as its pore size, pore orientation and morphology in a wide range by properly adjusting its melting and solidification condi...

Directional solidification of a faceted crystal. II. Phase dynamics of crenellated front patterns

Phase-Field Models for Eutectic Solidification

This article discusses two methods for modeling eutectic solidifi cation using the phase-field approach. First, a multi-phase-fi eld model is used to study the three-dimensional morphological evolution of binary eutectics. Performing the calculations in three dimensions allows observation of both lamellar and rod-like structures as well as transient phenomena such as lamellar fault motion, rod-...

Effects of flow on morphological stability during directional solidification

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...

Shear stabilization of morphological instability during directional solidification

A linear stability analysis is performed on the interface formed during the directional solidification of a dilute binary alloy in the presence of a time-periodic flow. In general, the flow is generated by translating the crystal relative to the far-field flow in elliptical orbits parallel to the interface. The presence of this complex, unsteady flow can either stabilize or destabilize the syst...