TY - JOUR
T1 - Capillary-mediated solid-liquid energy fields
T2 - Joint 5th International Conference on Advances in Solidification Processes, ICASP 2019 and 5th International Symposium on Cutting Edge of Computer Simulation of Solidification, Casting and Refining, CSSCR 2019
AU - Glicksman, M.
AU - Ankit, K.
N1 - Funding Information:
Author MG thanks the Allen S. Henry endowed Chair of Engineering, which provided support for this research at the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida. Both authors acknowledge financial support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through Grant Number 80NSSC18K1440.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/6/17
Y1 - 2019/6/17
N2 - Observations of melting crystallites in microgravity showed unusual shape changes as melting proceeded toward extinction. When re-analyzed in 2011, shape evolution data showed needle-like crystallites becoming spheroids as they melted toward extinction, suggesting that some type of capillary phenomenon at solid-liquid interfaces was responsible for an energy release capable of spherodising particles on melting, and stimulating pattern formation during unstable crystal growth. The presence of these previously undetected energy fields was recently uncovered using phase-field simulations that employ an entropy density functional. Simulations allow measurement of interfacial energy distributions on equilibrated solid-liquid interfaces configured as stationary grain boundary grooves (GBGs). Interfacial energy source fields - related to gradients in the Gibbs-Thomson temperature - entail persistent cooling along GBG profiles, a new result that fully confirms earlier predictions based on sharp-interface thermodynamics. This study also provides new insights to improve microstructure control at reduced scales by explaining the thermodynamic fields responsible for pattern formation in castings.
AB - Observations of melting crystallites in microgravity showed unusual shape changes as melting proceeded toward extinction. When re-analyzed in 2011, shape evolution data showed needle-like crystallites becoming spheroids as they melted toward extinction, suggesting that some type of capillary phenomenon at solid-liquid interfaces was responsible for an energy release capable of spherodising particles on melting, and stimulating pattern formation during unstable crystal growth. The presence of these previously undetected energy fields was recently uncovered using phase-field simulations that employ an entropy density functional. Simulations allow measurement of interfacial energy distributions on equilibrated solid-liquid interfaces configured as stationary grain boundary grooves (GBGs). Interfacial energy source fields - related to gradients in the Gibbs-Thomson temperature - entail persistent cooling along GBG profiles, a new result that fully confirms earlier predictions based on sharp-interface thermodynamics. This study also provides new insights to improve microstructure control at reduced scales by explaining the thermodynamic fields responsible for pattern formation in castings.
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U2 - 10.1088/1757-899X/529/1/012027
DO - 10.1088/1757-899X/529/1/012027
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85067859531
SN - 1757-8981
VL - 529
JO - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
JF - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
IS - 1
M1 - 012027
Y2 - 17 June 2019 through 21 June 2019
ER -