Fluid Flow Effects on Growth Kinetics of undercooled Ni-Al Alloy Melts

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Fluid flow in Ni-Al alloy melts plays an important role for the formation of phases and microstructures during solidification due to its influence on heat and mass transport ahead of the solid-liquid interface. In particular, depending on the initial melt concentration the high degree of chemical order of intermetallic NiAl (B2-phase) requires a massive diffusion process during crystallization. Extensive ground based measurements on undercooled Ni-Al alloy melts show that the dendrite growth velocity of the intermetallic B2-phase is in the same order as the fluid flow velocity in the electromagnetically levitated samples. Therefore the fluid flow is supposed to play a decisive role for the microstructural evolution of Ni-Al intermetallics at small and intermediate undercooling levels. 
\n<p>The extension of existing models of dendritic growth capable of quantitatively describing the fluid flow effects on dendrite growth of intermetallic alloys is an important topic of current

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