Simulation of free dendritic crystal growth in a gravity environment

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1772-1789

  Do Quang, Minh ^a   Amberg, Gustav ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dendritic solidification; Fictitious domain method; Lagrange multiplier

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; MESH GENERATION; PHASE INTERFACES; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; DENDRITIC CRYSTAL; DENDRITIC SOLIDIFICATION; FICTITIOUS DOMAIN METHOD; FLOW INDUCED; FREE PARTICLES; GRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS; MELT FLOW; PARTICLE MOTIONS; RELATIVE FLOW;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 37249071751     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.09.025     Document Type: Article

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