The coupling between a crystal-melt interface and fluid flow is investigated. The solidification
boundary conditions at the crystal-melt interface are described. The influences of …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the onset and development of thermal
convection in fully developed shear flows. The subject of thermal convection in shear flows …

We study how the dendritic evolution of an initially small nucleus is affected by a mean
external flow. The nucleus is considered to be attached to a solid wall, and it grows away …

A front tracking method is presented for simulations of dendritic growth of pure substances in
the presence of flow. The liquid–solid interface is explicitly tracked and the latent heat …

Crystal pulling is an industrial process and provides the bulk of semiconductor crystals for
the semiconductor industry. Initially a purely empirical process, the increase in importance …

Since the death of Prof. Dr. Jan Czochralski nearly 50 years ago, crystals grown by the
Czochralski method have increased remarkably in size and perfection, resulting today in the …

A binary liquid undergoes unidirectional solidification. The one-dimensional steady state is
susceptible to morphological instability that causes the solid/liquid interface to change from …

Imagine parallel growth steps forming a vacinal face and moving in the same direction.
Since the diffusion fields of these steps overlap, the steps decelerate one another and …

Morphological evolution during the solidification of succinonitrile–5at.% water transparent
alloy and Sn–15wt.% Pb alloy under mechanical stirring was investigated experimentally by …

A numerical study of the effect of an external mean flow on dendritic growth has been
performed. All simulations are 2D phase-field computations using an adaptive finite element …