Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1996
Publication Title
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science
Abstract
Convection and macrosegregation in directionally solidified hypoeutectic Pb-38 wt pct Sn and hypereutectic Pb-64.5 wt pct Sn have been examined during upward and downward growth. Temperature fluctuations are observed along the length of the melt column during downward growth. With increasing Rayleigh number, these fluctuations change from none, to cyclic, to time periodic having multiple harmonics, and finally to random. At the higher convective driving force of 350 K temperature inversion, the transverse magnetic field decreased convective levels, strong random temperature fluctuations (flows) becoming smaller and periodic. The maximum field of 0.45 T was unable to completely eliminate convection. For the lower convective driving force of 150 K temperature inversion, the 0.05 T magnetic field decreased flows, and at 0.15 T, the field caused a dramatic decrease in the characteristic frequency of the temperature fluctuations, indicating a change in the nature of the flow, the waveform of the temperature fluctuations changing from sinusoidal to a pulsed wave. Temperature fluctuations and time delays between thermocouples were used to estimate flow velocities. Irrespective of the convection in the bulk melt (ahead of the mushy zone), longitudinal macrosegregation occurs only if the interdendritic melt mixes with the bulk melt.
Repository Citation
Song, Hui; Tewari, Surendra N.; and DeGroh, H. C. III, "Convection During Thermally Unstable Solidification of Pb-Sn in a Magnetic Field" (1996). Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications. 7.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/encbe_facpub/7
Original Citation
Song, H., Tewari, S.N., & DeGroh, H.C. (1996). Convection During Thermally Unstable Solidification of Pb-Sn in a Magnetic Field. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science 27, 1095-1110.
Volume
27
Issue
4
DOI
10.1007/BF02649778
Version
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Publisher's Statement
Copyright 1996 ASM International. This paper was published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 1095-1110 and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of ASM International. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplications of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of this paper are prohibited.
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