Progress in modelling solidification microstructures in metals and alloys. Part II: dendrites from 2001 to 2018

W Kurz, M Rappaz, R Trivedi - International Materials Reviews, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This is the first account of the history of modelling dendritic and cellular solidification. While
Part I reviewed the progress up to the year 2000 [Kurz W, Fisher DJ, Trivedi R. Progress in …

Microstructure selection in thin-sample directional solidification of an Al-Cu alloy: In situ X-ray imaging and phase-field simulations

AJ Clarke, D Tourret, Y Song, SD Imhoff, PJ Gibbs… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
We study microstructure selection during directional solidification of a thin metallic sample.
We combine in situ X-ray radiography of a dilute Al-Cu alloy solidification experiments with …

Convective effects on columnar dendritic solidification–A multiscale dendritic needle network study

T Isensee, D Tourret - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Gravity-induced buoyancy, inevitable in most solidification processes, substantially alters the
dynamics of crystal growth, such that incorporating fluid flow in solidification models is …

Recent progress on apparatus development and in situ observation of metal solidification processes via synchrotron radiation X-ray imaging: A review

W Lu, N Zhang, Z Ding, Q Hu, J LI - … of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2022 - Elsevier
The solidification process of metals plays a critical role in their final microstructure and,
correspondingly, in their performance. It is therefore important to probe the solidification …

The spatial and temporal distribution of dendrite fragmentation in solidifying Al-Cu alloys under different conditions

E Liotti, A Lui, S Kumar, Z Guo, C Bi, T Connolley… - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
The directional columnar solidification of Al-Cu alloy dendrites was studied in-situ by
synchrotron X-ray radiography to investigate the spatial and temporal distribution of dendrite …

Multiscale prediction of microstructure length scales in metallic alloy casting

B Bellon, AK Boukellal, T Isensee, OM Wellborn… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Microstructural length scales, such as dendritic spacings in cast metallic alloys, play an
essential role in the properties of structural components. Therefore, quantitative prediction of …

Imaging transient solidification behavior

JT McKeown, AJ Clarke, JMK Wiezorek - Mrs Bulletin, 2020 - cambridge.org
Solidification processing offers the first opportunity to control microstructure, properties, and
performance in metallic alloy components. Until recently, microstructural evaluations were …

Natural convection on dendrite morphology: a high–performance phase–field lattice Boltzmann study

T Takaki, S Sakane, T Aoki - ISIJ International, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Numerical study on the effect of liquid flow on three-dimensional dendrite growth is still a
challenging topic. Herein, high-performance phase–field lattice Boltzmann (PF-LB) …

Simulation of dendritic remelting and fragmentation using coupled cellular automaton and Eulerian multiphase model

N Ren, J Li, N Bogdan, M Xia, J Li - Computational Materials Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Dendritic structures are one of the most complicated forms of crystallization in nature and
technology and strongly affect the properties of as-cast metals. The evolution of dendrites …

Coarsening evolution of dendritic sidearms: From synchrotron experiments to quantitative modeling

H Neumann-Heyme, N Shevchenko, Z Lei, K Eckert… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
The local dynamics of dendritic sidearms during coarsening are studied by combining in-situ
radiography observations with numerical and analytical models. A flat sample of a Ga-In …