Date of Award

2011

Degree Type

Thesis

Department

Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

First Advisor

Tewari, Surendra N.

Subject Headings

Directional solidification, Aluminum alloys, Silicon alloys, Dendritic crystals, Directional solidification, step change, growth speed, morphology, nearest neighbor spacing, trunk diameter, Side branch length, Side branch orientation, Al- 7 wt Si alloy, thermal gradient, step increase, step decrease, steady state, transition

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