Comparison and extension of free dendritic growth models through application to a Ag-15 mass pct Cu alloy


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Oenel S., Ando T.

METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A-PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, sa.10, ss.2449-2458, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

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The formulations of existing free dendritic growth models were compared, and an extended model was proposed that employs a subregular solution model to compute the driving force for dendritic growth without Henrian restrictions. These models were also applied to a Ag-15 mass pct Cu alloy to numerically compare their predictions. Models that address only the thermal, solutal, and curvature supercoolings do not properly account for the interface kinetics, even with modi. cations with the kinetic partition coefficient and liquidus slope. It is only in models that account for the interfacial driving force, -Delta G*, that the kinetic supercooling is properly addressed. All of the models in comparison yield numerically similar predictions for the solutal growth regime, but models that employ the kinetic partition coefficient and liquidus slope, but do not address the interfacial driving force, fail to correctly describe the thermal control regime. The solutal-to-thermal transition is characterized by a rapid increase of interfacial driving force, which causes the tip temperature T* to increase with increasing growth rate V. The criterion for the transition stage is given as d ln(-Delta G*)/d ln V>1.

The formulations of existing free dendritic growth models were compared, and an extended model was proposed that employs a subregular solution model to compute the driving force for dendritic growth without Henrian restrictions. These models were also applied to a Ag-15 mass pct Cu alloy to numerically compare their predictions. Models that address only the thermal,solutal, and curvature supercoolings do not properly account for the interface kinetics, even with modifications with the kinetic partition coefficient and liquidus slope. It is only in models that account for the interfacial driving force, -DeltaG*, that the kinetic supercooling is properly addressed. All of the models in comparison yield numerically similar predictions for the solutal growth regime, but models that employ the kinetic partition coefficient and liquidus slope, but do not address the interfacial driving force, fail to correctly describe the thermal control regime. The solutal-to-thermal transition is characterized by a rapid increase of interfacial driving force, which causes the tip temperature T* to increase with increasing growth rate V. The criterion for the transition stage is given as d ln(-DeltaG*)/d lnV>1.