Numerical Study of Convection in the Directional Solidification of a Binary Alloy Driven by the Combined Action of Buoyancy, Surface Tension, and Electromagnetic Forces

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 384-411

  Sampath, Rajiv ^a   Zabaras, Nicholas ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional binary alloy solidification; Finite element method; Front tracking methodology; Magneto hydrodynamics; Marangoni convection; Natural convection; Stabilized Navier Stokes solvers; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BISMUTH ALLOYS; BUOYANCY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE INTERFACES; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE TENSION;

ALLOY SOLIDIFICATION; DIRECTIONAL BINARY ALLOY SOLIDIFICATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES; FRONT TRACKING; FRONT TRACKING METHODOLOGY; MAGNETO HYDRODYNAMICS; MARANGONI CONVECTION; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; STABILIZED NAVI-STOKE SOLVER; SURFACE TENSION FORCE;

SOLIDIFICATION;

EID: 0142173645     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6706     Document Type: Article

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