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Chin. Phys. B, 2012, Vol. 21(5): 056401    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/21/5/056401
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Linear stability analysis on a spherical particle growing from a binary melt under the far-field flow

Cao Bin(曹斌), Lin Xin(林鑫), Wang Meng(王猛), and Huang Wei-Dong(黄卫东)
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
Abstract  The solutions of temperature and solute fields around a spherical crystal growing from a binary melt under the far-field flow are obtained. Based on the results, a linear stability analysis on the spherical interface growing from the binary melt under the far-field flow is performed. It is found that the constitutional supercooling effect ahead of the spherical crystal interface under the far-field flow is enhanced compared with that without the flow. The growth rate of the perturbation amplitude at the up-wind side of the spherical crystal interface is larger than that at the down-wind side. The critical stability radius of the crystal interface decreases with the increasing far-field flow velocity. Under the far-field flow, the whole spherical interface becomes more unstable compared with that without the flow.
Keywords:  spherical crystal      far-field flow      interface stability      Trivedi's criterion  
Received:  27 November 2011      Revised:  27 April 2012      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  64.70.D- (Solid-liquid transitions)  
  64.70.dg (Crystallization of specific substances)  
  81.10.Fq (Growth from melts; zone melting and refining)  
  81.30.Fb (Solidification)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 50771083 and 50901061), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB610402), the Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing in NWPU, China (Grants Nos. 02-TZ-2008 and 36-TP-2009), and the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities, China (Grant No. 08040).

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Cao Bin(曹斌), Lin Xin(林鑫), Wang Meng(王猛), and Huang Wei-Dong(黄卫东) Linear stability analysis on a spherical particle growing from a binary melt under the far-field flow 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 056401

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