Recent progress of crystal growth modeling and growth control

CW Lan - Chemical engineering science, 2004 - Elsevier
With the rapid growth of electronic and optoelectronic industry, the demand for crystal
materials increased dramatically for the past two decades. The requirement for better …

Strong static magnetic field processing of metallic materials: A review

ZHI Sun, M Guo, J Vleugels, O Van der Biest… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2012 - Elsevier
Metallic materials processing in an imposed strong static magnetic field (SSMF) has
attracted widely attention in the last decade since a magnetic field of 10T or higher becomes …

Influence of thermoelectric effects on the solid–liquid interface shape and cellular morphology in the mushy zone during the directional solidification of Al–Cu alloys …

X Li, Y Fautrelle, Z Ren - Acta Materialia, 2007 - Elsevier
In this work thermoelectromagnetic convection (TEMC) is evaluated at different scales and
the result shows that the effect of TEMC is different for different scales. To validate this …

Investigation of thermoelectric magnetic convection and its effect on solidification structure during directional solidification under a low axial magnetic field

X Li, A Gagnoud, Z Ren, Y Fautrelle, R Moreau - Acta Materialia, 2009 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric magnetic convection (TEMC) at the scale of both the sample (L= 3mm) and
the cell/dendrite (L= 100μm) was numerically and experimentally examined during the …

Influence of an axial high magnetic field on the liquid–solid transformation in Al–Cu hypoeutectic alloys and on the microstructure of the solid

X Li, Y Fautrelle, Z Ren - Acta materialia, 2007 - Elsevier
The influence of an axial high magnetic field (up to 10T) on the liquid–solid interface
morphology and microstructure of the solid has been investigated experimentally during …

Multi-physics simulation of dendritic growth in magnetic field assisted solidification

L Cao, D Liu, P Jiang, X Shao, Q Zhou… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Magnetic field assisted casting and welding attracted research attentions in the recent
decades because it has been observed that the inter-dendritic flow of liquid metals can be …

Thermal radiation effects on magnetohydrodynamic free convection heat and mass transfer from a sphere in a variable porosity regime

VR Prasad, B Vasu, OA Bég, RD Parshad - Communications in Nonlinear …, 2012 - Elsevier
A mathematical model is presented for multiphysical transport of an optically-dense,
electrically-conducting fluid along a permeable isothermal sphere embedded in a variable …

Improvement in creep life of a nickel-based single-crystal superalloy via composition homogeneity on the multiscales by magnetic-field-assisted directional …

W Ren, C Niu, B Ding, Y Zhong, J Yu, Z Ren, W Liu… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
The improvement of the creep properties of single-crystal superalloys is always strongly
motivated by the vast growing demand from the aviation, aerospace, and gas engine. In this …

Effect of a high magnetic field on microstructures of Ni-based superalloy during directional solidification

W Xuan, Z Ren, C Li - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2015 - Elsevier
The effect of a high magnetic field on the dendrite morphology of superalloy DZ417G during
directional solidification at a low solidification velocity has been investigated experimentally …

The effect of the traveling magnetic field (TMF) on the buoyancy-induced convection in the vertical Bridgman growth of semiconductors

S Yesilyurt, S Motakef, R Grugel, K Mazuruk - Journal of crystal growth, 2004 - Elsevier
A traveling magnetic field (TMF) is created by means of applying out-of-phase currents to a
number of coils. When applied to a conducting melt inside a cylindrical container, the TMF …