A fixed grid front-tracking model of the growth of a columnar front and an equiaxed grain during solidification of an alloy

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 395-419

  Browne, D J ^a   Hunt, J D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASTING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; ENTHALPY; NUCLEATION; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SOLIDIFICATION;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA (CA); COLUMNAR SOLIDIFICATION; FRONT-TRACKING TECHNIQUE; HEAT EQUATION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 2342565116     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790490430606     Document Type: Article

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