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Chin. Phys. B, 2011, Vol. 20(10): 108104    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/20/10/108104
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What happens to the initial planar instability when the thermal gradient is increased during directional solidification?

Wang Zhi-Jun(王志军), Wang Jin-Cheng(王锦程), Li Jun-Jie(李俊杰), Yang Gen-Cang(杨根仓), and Zhou Yao-He(周尧和)
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
Abstract  The positive thermal gradient is one of the most important parameters during directional solidification. The increase of the thermal gradient usually stabilizes the planar interface in the steady state analysis. However, in the initial transient range of planar instability, the thermal gradient presents complicated effects. Time-dependent analysis shows that the increase of the thermal gradient can enhance both the stabilizing effects and the destabilizing effects on a planar interface. The incubation time first decreases and then increases with the increase of the thermal gradient. Moreover, the initial average wavelength always increases with the thermal gradient increasing, contrary to the effect of the thermal gradient on the steady cellular/dendritic spacing. This reveals the types of spacing adjustment after planar instability.
Keywords:  directional solidification      thermal gradient      transient behaviour      initial planar instability  
Received:  20 January 2011      Revised:  15 June 2011      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  81.30.Fb (Solidification)  
  47.20.Ib (Instability of boundary layers; separation)  
  47.20.Ma (Interfacial instabilities (e.g., Rayleigh-Taylor))  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51071128), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No. NCET-09-0683), the Fund of State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing in Northwestern Polytechnical University, China (Grant Nos. 17-TZ-2007, 03-TP-2008, and 24-TZ-2009), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB610401), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 20110491689).

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Wang Zhi-Jun(王志军), Wang Jin-Cheng(王锦程), Li Jun-Jie(李俊杰), Yang Gen-Cang(杨根仓), and Zhou Yao-He(周尧和) What happens to the initial planar instability when the thermal gradient is increased during directional solidification? 2011 Chin. Phys. B 20 108104

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