A coupled VOF-IBM-enthalpy approach for modeling motion and growth of equiaxed dendrites in a solidifying melt

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3987-4000

  Karagadde, Shyamprasad ^a   Bhattacharya, Anirban ^a   Tomar, Gaurav ^a   Dutta, Pradip ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Enthalpy method; Equiaxed dendrites; Growth and motion; Immersed boundary; Melt flow; VOF

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PHASE INTERFACES; TURBULENT FLOW;

COUPLED METHODOLOGY; ENTHALPY APPROACH; ENTHALPY METHOD; EQUIAXED DENDRITE; GROWTH AND MOTION; IMMERSED BOUNDARY; MELT FLOW; MODELING MOTIONS; SOLIDIFYING MELT; VOF;

FLOW FIELDS;

EID: 84858749796     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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