A force and/or torque are induced in a material under the imposition of a magnetic field. Their magnitudes are different from those acting on the surrounding materials because of the difference in their physical properties. Therefore, a magnetic field is a powerful tool for controlling a second phase in a mother phase such as particles suspended in a liquid. In this paper, we focus on two proce...

the liquid metal flow and the solidification behaviours in a multi-cavity casting mould of two automotive cast parts were simulated in three dimensions. the commercial code, flow-3d® was used because it can track the front of the molten metal by a volume of fluid (vof) method and allows complicated parts to be modeled by the fractional area/volume obstacle representation (favor) method. the gre...

We propose a scheme for simulation of the solute-driven dendritic solidification which accounts for the flows of liquid and motion of growing dendrites. The scheme is based on the multiphase-field method for calculating the solidification and the lattice Boltzmann method to simulate the fluid flows. Motion and rotation of solid grains is possible.

preparation of chitosan (cs) microspheres as a novel drug delivery vehicle for intranasal immunization using high, medium and low cs molecular weight (mw) was investigated in this study. diphtheria toxoid (dt) was used as a model antigen. the emulsion-solidification method was adopted for microencapsulation of dt.  in the first step, following the purification of semi-crude dt by the ion-exchan...

The process of cast explosive solidification molding has been dynamic monitored by multi-channel ultrasonic transmission method. It presents the regular pattern of ultrasonic attenuation, velocity and waveform in this process. The results show that velocity values and waveform are relative to solidification speed and physical characterization on the phase border, and ultrasonic attenuation is r...

Gao and Sonin (1994) have proposed a method for rapid prototyping and microfabrication by precise deposition and solidification of molten microdrops. Objects can be fabricated by a drop-on-demand, computer-controlled droplet generator. To understand the fundamentals of droplet deposition and solidification, experiments have been conducted using microcrystalline wax droplets (Schiaffino and Soni...

Compositionally graded bulk materials of organic polymer blends were prepared by using nonequilibrium self-organization processes with a uniaxial thermal gradient (Bridgman method). The Bridgman method was firstly applied to prepare two kinds of polymeric compositionally graded materials: a polymer/low molecular weight additive system (poly(e-caprolactone) (PCL)/ 4,49-thiodiphenol (TDP)) and a ...

The solidification of gamma TiAl alloys is of interest to the aerospace and automotive industries. A gamma TiAl multicomponent alloy: Ti–45.5Al–4.7Nb–0.2C–0.2B (at. %) has been the focus of a study to investigate the solidification conditions that led to a Columnar to Equiaxed Transition (CET) in a directional solidification experiment where traditional Bridgman solidification was combined in s...

A new finite element level set method is developed to simulate the interface motion. The normal velocity of the moving interface can depend on both the local geometry, such as the curvature, and the external force such as that due to the flux from both sides of the interface of a material whose concentration is governed by a diffusion equation. The key idea of the method is to use an interface-...

simulations of morphological instabilities and dendritic solidification is given first, in order to put our work into perWe present a front-tracking method to simulate time dependent two-dimensional dendritic solidification of pure substances. The spective. method is based on a finite difference approximation of the heat The process of solidification of a pure substance can equation and explici...