Orientation Dependence of Columnar Dendritic Growth with Sidebranching Behaviors in Directional Solidification: Insights from Phase-Field Simulations
- Northwestern Polytechnical University, The Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry (China)
- Zhengzhou University, College of Materials Science and Engineering (China)
In this study, a thin-interface phase-field model was employed to study the orientation dependence of the columnar dendritic growth with sidebranching behaviors in directional solidification. It was found that the dimensionless tip undercooling increases with the increase of misorientation angle for three pulling velocities. The primary spacing is found to be a function of misorientation angle, and the dimensionless primary spacing with respect to the misorientation angle follows the orientation correction given by Gandin and Rappaz (Acta. Metall. 42:2233–2246, 1994). For the analysis of the dendritic tip, the two-dimensional (2-D) form of the nonaxisymmetric needle crystal was used to determine the radius of the tilted columnar dendrite. Based on the definitions of open side and constrained side of the dendrite, the analysis of the width active sidebranches and the dendritic area in 2-D with respect to the distance from the dendritic tip was carried out to investigate the asymmetrical dendrite envelop and sidebranching behaviors on the two sides in directional solidification. The obtained prefactor and exponent with respect to misorientation angle are discussed, showing that the sidebranching behaviors of a tilted columnar dendritic array obey a similar power-law relationship with that of a free dendritic growth.
- OSTI ID:
- 22857908
- Journal Information:
- Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, Process Metallurgy and Materials Processing Science, Vol. 49, Issue 4; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2018 The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and ASM International; http://www.springer-ny.com; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1073-5615
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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