ＣＲＥＭ法半连铸Ａｌ合金过程中电磁场对溶质元素固溶的影响机理

实验研究了低频交变电磁场作用下， 7075合金半连铸坯微观组织形貌及各溶质元素的固溶 情况；并就电磁场对液固相线位置和结晶间隔的改变进行了测定；此外还数值模拟了电磁场 对半连铸过程中液穴内部温度场和流动场的影响.从电磁场对7075合金凝固过程中的溶质分 配系数，结晶间隔，液穴内部温度场、流动场以及微观组织形貌的影响出发，尝试性地对电 磁场的强制固溶机理进行探讨性的解释和说明. 关键词： 电磁场 半连铸 铝合金 固溶     

Hall effects on steady hydromagnetic flow in a rotating channel in the presence of an inclined magnetic field

Effects of Hall current on a steady hydromagnetic (MHD) fully developed flow in a rotating environment within a parallel plate channel in the presence of an inclined magnetic field is studied. From an extension of literature [13] subject to a forced oscillation it is observed that the present paper is methodically more correct to work first in the steady state where forced oscillation becomes insignificant and then new results are expected for an unsteady MHD flow under the influence of a pulse-oscillator. Exact solutions of the governing equations are obtained in a closed form. The graphical representation for the velocity and the induced magnetic field are depicted graphically and the heat transfer at both the plates are presented in tables.     

The use of magnetic fields in vertical Bridgman/Gradient Freeze-type crystal growth

This paper outlines advanced vertical Bridgman/Gradient Freeze techniques with flow control using magnetic fields developed for the growth of semiconductor crystals. Low-temperature flow modelling, as well as laboratory-scaled crystal growth under the influence of rotating, travelling, and static magnetic fields are presented. Experimental and numerical flow modelling demonstrate the potential of the magnetic fields to establish a well-defined flow for tailoring heat and mass transfer in the melt during growth. The results of the growth experiments are discussed with a focus on the influence of a rotating field on the segregation of dopants, the influence of a travelling field on the temperature field and thermal stresses, and the potential of rotating and static fields for a stabilization of the melt flow.     

远场来流条件下过冷熔体球晶生长的稳定性

建立了远场来流条件下过冷熔体球晶生长的温度场和浓度场稳态模型,分析了对流对球晶周围温度场和浓度场的影响,并以Trivedi的纯扩散球晶稳定性判据为基础,推导出远场来流条件下过冷熔体球晶生长的临界稳定性判据. 研究表明:远场来流条件下,迎流面的扰动振幅增加速率明显大于背流面的扰动振幅增加速率. 振幅增加速率最大值对应的扰动阶次从迎流面到背流面逐渐减小,随着球晶半径增加而增大. 对流使迎流面的稳定性降低,背流面的稳定性增大. 随着流速的增加,球晶的临界稳定半径减小. 关键词： 球晶 远场来流 界面形态稳定性 Trivedi判据     

Electrofluidized bed of silica nanoparticles

The behavior of a fluidized bed of electroneutral silica nanopowder under the influence of a cross-flow electric field is studied. Nanoparticle agglomerates experience an electrophoretic force as a consequence of being naturally charged, which leads to electrophoretic deposition at static and low frequency fields. In contrast, fluidization is enhanced at intermediate field frequencies, which can be attributed to agglomerate forced flow.     

Numerical simulation on dendritic growth of Al-Cu alloy under convection based on the cellular automaton lattice Boltzmann method

A numerical model is developed by coupling the cellular automaton (CA) method and the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to simulate the dendritic growth of Al-Cu alloy in both two and three dimensions. An improved decentered square algorithm is proposed to overcome the artificial anisotropy induced by the CA cells and to realize simulation of dendritic growth with arbitrary orientations. Based on the established CA-LBM model, effects of forced convection and gravity-driven natural convection on dendritic growth are studied. The simulation results show that the blocking effect of dendrites on melt flow is advanced with a larger number of seeds. The competitive growth of the converging columnar dendrites is determined by the interaction between heat flow and forced convection. Gravity-driven natural convection leads to highly asymmetric growth of equiaxed dendrites. With sinking downwards of the heavy solute, chimney-like or mushroom-like solute plumes are formed in the melt in front of the columnar dendrites when they grow along the gravitational direction. More details on dendritic growth of Al-Cu alloy under convection are revealed by 3D simulations.     

Creep Behaviour of Fe-Mn Binary Alloys

Tensile creep behaviour of fine-grained Fe-Mn binary alloys containing 0.42-1.21 wt. % Mn has been investigated in the temperature range from room temperature to 475K under 10-50 MPa. Tensile tests are carried out with a constant cross-head speed under uniaxial load at a strain rate 10^-4s^-1. Stress exponent and activation energy are determined to clarify deformation mechanism. The obtained variation of steady state creep rate with respect to the applied stress for Fe-Mn binary alloys exhibits two distinct regimes at about 20 MPa, indicating a possible change in creep mechanism. The average stress exponent is approximately 2.2, which is a characteristic of grain boundary sliding in the alloys. The activation energy for plastic flow varies from 135 to 92k J/mol, depending on the Mn content.     

Computation of solidification problems with hydrodynamic convection resolving energetic anisotropies at the microscale quantitatively

In this work we propose a new numerical approach to solve the solidification of microstructures from a pure melt including hydrodynamic effects in the molten phase. The model is based on the classical sharp-interface model, i.e the solid–liquid interface is tracked and latent heat is released. An enhanced scheme is employed to solve fluid flow in the melt. The no-slip condition is applied on the interface by enforcing the velocities in the solid phase to be zero. The morphology evolution of the solidifying crystal microstructure under the influence of convection is compared with an existing morphology diagram for pure diffusion controlled growth (see Brener et al. [1]). The peculiarity of our approach is that it models the physical anisotropies along the solid–liquid interface with high accuracy. This allows us to report changes in the morphology diagram given by Brener et al. [1] due to the influence of forced flow. Moreover, we present some results on the scaling of the dendritic tip in such cases.     

弱磁场对Zn分枝状电解沉积物形貌的影响

用金相显微镜和原子力显微镜分析了存在外加磁场情况下的Zn分枝状电解沉积物的微观形貌 ，并且根据实验结果提出了磁场使沉积物分枝呈现螺旋状偏转的机理.1)在沉积物晶粒的早 期生长阶段，当晶粒已经形成了择优生长方向但又非常小,仍然悬浮于电解液中时，磁流体 动力学对流作用于它上面的不平衡力使得晶粒连同它的择优生长方向向着对流下方偏转，直 到晶粒足够大，和它的前一个单晶枝晶连接在一起为止.2)当晶粒和它的前一个单晶枝晶连 接在一起以后，磁流体动力学对流的作用力已不足使它偏转.此时，如果电解液的浓度比较 高，单晶枝晶的一级分枝和二级分枝之间不存在对电解质的竞争关系，则此单晶枝晶将完全 按照初期形成的晶体择优生长方向直线生长，直到新的晶粒形核为止;如果电解液浓度较低 ，造成第一级分枝与第二级分枝的竞争关系，二级分枝总在第一级分枝的上游侧生长，使得 一级分枝向下游方向偏转.通过上述两个步骤，无论是枝晶沉积物还是分形沉积物都产生螺 旋状偏转. 关键词： 电解沉积 磁流体动力学对流 晶体择优生长方向 生长形态     

Mathematical modelling of heat and mass transfer under conditions of mixed convection in rectangular region with heat source and heat-conducting walls

Numerical modelling of a conjugate convective-conduction heat transfer in a rectangular region with a heat-release source was carried out in the presence of forced flow and mass exchange. The distributions of thermal and hydrodynamic characteristics, which describe the specific peculiarities of flow regimes under study, were obtained. The mutual influence of forced and free-convective flow was analysed. The scales of the effect of determining dimensionless complexes (Gr, Br, Re) on flow regimes were established. The evolution of analysed process was shown.     

Experimental investigation on flow boiling bubble motion under ultrasonic field in vertical minichannel by using bubble tracking algorithm

Bubble dynamics is important in flow boiling of minichannel, and ultrasonic field effects bubble behaviors. However, flow boiling bubble movements in minichannels under ultrasonic field have received little research attention and are still poorly understood. In this paper, the effects of ultrasonic field on bubble dynamics are experimentally studied by capturing the bubble motion behaviors of the flow boiling bubbles. The ultrasonic frequencies are set to 23, 28, 32, and 40 kHz. Bubble tracking algorithm, which studies the growth, trajectories, velocities, and traveled distances for bubbles, is created to qualitatively describe bubble motion behavior of flow boiling in minichannel. It is found that after the application of ultrasound, the detachment frequency, velocity, and travel distance of the bubbles significantly increases, and the growth behavior and trajectory are extremely complex, the two-phase gas-liquid flow is extremely unstable. The bubbles gain kinetic energy as the ultrasound frequency increases. Finally, numerical simulations are used to quantitatively investigate the mechanism of bubble motion in microchannels under ultrasonic fields.     

End-wall errors in temperature measurement of external convective heat transfer with Moiré deflectometry

Moiré deflectometry is a robust and simple optical method that allows obtaining the temperature field in flows with uniform pressure and two-dimensional and axisymmetric flows. Since in real configurations it is not possible to keep exactly the hypothesis of two-dimensional flow, it is necessary to asses this influence. Therefore this work studies a procedure to estimate the errors due to the end-wall and 3-D effects when Moiré deflectometry is used for measuring the temperature field of an external convective heat transfer flow with free edges.According to the value of the parameter Gr/Re², results show two tendencies. The error in temperature measurement is smaller than 1% for ratios of thermal boundary layer thickness to the test field width lower than 0.4, in turbulent forced convection flows for temperature differences of 40 K. Temperature effects are significative, multiplying the error by two for a temperature difference 50% greater. These results enable researchers to evaluate the errors of this measurement technique associated with the end-wall effect.     

Effect of boundary heat flux on solidification in a forced liquid metal flow: a phase-field simulation

A phase-field model coupling with velocity field is employed to study the effect of boundary heat flux on the microstructure formation of a Ni-40.8%Cu alloy with liquid flow during the solidification, and an anti-trapping current is introduced to suppress the solute trapping due to the larger interface width used in simulations than a real solidifying material. The effect of the flow field coupling with boundary heat extractions on the microstructure formation as well as distributions of concentration and temperature fields are analyzed and discussed. The forced liquid flow can significantly affect the heat and solute diffusions, thus influencing morphology formation, concentration and temperature distributions during the solidification. The solute segregation and concentration diffusion are changed by boundary heat extractions, and the morphology, concentration and temperature distributions are significantly influenced by increasing the heat extraction, which relatively makes the effect of liquid flow constrained. By increasing the initial velocity of liquid flow, the lopsided rate of the primary dendrite arm is enlarged and the growth manner of dendrite arms gets changed, and the transition of the microstructure from dendrite to cellular moves to the large heat extraction direction. Therefore, there exists the competition between the heat flux, temperature gradient and forced liquid flow that finally determines the microstructure formation during directional solidification.     

Influences of travelling magnetic field on the dendritic structures of Sn–1.8Cd peritectic alloy during directional solidification

The effects of melt flow driven by a travelling magnetic field (TMF) on solidification structures of Sn–1.8 wt.% Cd peritectic alloy have been investigated numerically and experimentally. Numerical results indicate that the flow velocity at the solid–liquid interface under a downward TMF is smaller than that under an upward TMF. The experimental results show that the growth directions of dendrites are chaotic, and several crotches among the dendrites are observed at the solid–liquid interface in the case of no field. It is concluded from TMF results that the ordered growth of dendrites at two different directions occurs, and only one crotch among the dendrites appears at the solid–liquid interface. The location of the crotch gradually approaches the interface center with increasing magnetic field intensity (B≤10.3 mT). Moreover, the growth of high-order branches occurs at the crotch under a downward TMF. A simple model is established for explanation and it well corresponds to the experimental results.     

Forced flexural vibrations of a pipe with a liquid flow

The effect of a liquid flow on the forced vibrations of a pipe under an external driving force is studied both theoretically and experimentally. The analytic dependences of the displacement field on the frequency, the liquid flow velocity, the force application point, and the parameters of the pipe and the liquid are determined by means of the small perturbation method. Experimental results agree well with theoretical dependences. It is shown that the effect of the liquid flow on the pipe vibrations is maximal in the vicinity of the resonance of the second vibration mode.     

Free convection effects and radiative heat transfer in MHD Stokes problem for the flow of dusty conducting fluid through porous medium

The present note deals with the effects of radiative heat transfer and free convection in MHD for a flow of an electrically conducting, incompressible, dusty viscous fluid past an impulsively started vertical non-conducting plate, under the influence of transversely applied magnetic field. The heat due to viscous dissipation and induced magnetic field is assumed to be negligible. The governing linear partial differential equations are solved by finite difference technique. The effects of various parameters (like radiation parameter N, Prandtl number Pr, porosity parameter K) entering into the MHD Stokes problem for flow of dusty conducting fluid have been examined on the temperature field and velocity profile for both the dusty fluid and dust particles.     

Forced diffusion in magnetic fluids under the influence of a strong magnetic field gradient

We have investigated the forced diffusion of magnetic nanoparticles suspended in a carrier liquid under the influence of a magnetic field gradient. A cylindrical layer of the suspension was exposed to an azimuthal magnetic field with radial gradient. The radial distribution of the concentration of magnetic particles was determined for different times. The obtained experimental data are compared with a numerical solution of the diffusion equation and good agreement has been observed.     

Physical states and properties of barium titanate films in a plane electric field

The influence of a plane electric field on the phase states of barium titanate thin films under the conditions of forced deformation has been studied. The field dependence of a complete set of material constants has been taken in the region of the c-phase, where polarization losses are absent. The material constants are calculated using equations of the piezoelectric effect derived by linearizing the nonlinear equations of state from the phenomenological; theory for barium titanate. It has been shown that there is a critical value of the field at which the electromechanical coupling coefficient reaches a maximum.     

The effects of porosity and permeability on fluid flow and heat transfer of multi walled carbon nano-tubes suspended in oil (MWCNT/Oil nano-fluid) in a microchannel filled with a porous medium

The forced convection heat transfer and laminar flow in a two-dimensional microchannel filled with a porous medium is numerically investigated. The nano-particles which have been used are multi walled carbon nano-tubes (MWCNT) suspended in oil as the based fluid. The assumption of no-slip condition between the base fluid and nano-particles as well as the thermal equilibrium between them allows us to study the nanofluid in a single phase. The nanofluid flow through the microchannel has been modeled using the Darcy–Forchheimer equation. It is also assumed that there is a thermal equilibrium between the solid phase and the nanofluid for energy transfer. The walls of the microchannel are under the influence of a fluctuating heat flux. Also, the slip velocity boundary condition has been assumed along the walls. The effects of Darcy number, porosity and slip coefficients and Reynolds number on the velocity and temperature profiles and Nusselt number will be studied in this research.     

Formation of multilayer strained-layer heterostructures by liquid epitaxy. I. Theoretical aspects of the problem and mathematical model

Problems concerned with the formation of multilayer strained-layer heterostructures by “capillary” liquid-phase epitaxy with forced hydraulic replacement of the solutions in the growth channel are analyzed. It is shown for short contact times between the solutions and the crystallization surface that the character of their flow in the channel plays an important role in the achievement of uniformity in the physical characteristics of the layers grown. Theoretical estimates of the hydrodynamic stability of solutions moving in narrow channels are performed for several III-V systems. A mathematical model, which permits simulation of the conditions under which strained-layer heterostructures are fabricated, is developed. It takes into account diffusive and convective mass transport in the liquid for various flow regimes in the capillary and the displacement of the heterogeneous equilibria in the system under the influence of elastic stresses. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 67, 42–49 (July 1997)