Study of freckles formation during directional solidification under the influence of single-phase and multiphase convection

Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Chakraborty, Prodyut R ^a   Dutta, Pradip ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Freckles formation; Macroscopic modeling; macrosegregation; Solid transport; Solutal convection

Indexed keywords

FRAGMENTATION; FRECKLES FORMATION; MACROSCOPIC MODEL; MACROSEGREGATIONS; SOLID TRANSPORT; SOLUTAL CONVECTIONS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

SOLIDIFICATION;

EID: 84882628886     PISSN: 19485085     EISSN: 19485093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4023601     Document Type: Article

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