Control of melt convection by a travelling magnetic field during the directional solidification of Al-Ni alloys

Comptes Rendus - Mecanique

Volumn 335, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 330-335

  Zaïdat, Kader ^a   Mangelinck Noël, Nathalie ^b   Moreau, René ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Columnar grains; Dendrites; Directional solidification; Equiaxed; Fluid mechanics; Natural and forced convection; Travelling magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; FORCED CONVECTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUCLEATION;

ALLOY; ALUMINUM; CONVECTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MELT; NICKEL; SOLIDIFICATION;

EID: 34447098754     PISSN: 16310721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crme.2007.05.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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