Solidification Processes of Light Metal Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Casting, Forming and Heat Treatment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2019) | Viewed by 4205
Special Issue Editor
Interests: solidification; heat and mass transfer; phase change with convection; multiscale modeling; casting processes; additive manufacturing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Solidification is at the origin of microstructure, macrostructure, and defects in many processing methods for light metals: Casting, welding, remelting processes, and additive manufacturing techniques. The link between process conditions and the structure formed during solidification is an inherently multiscale problem. Progress is therefore made on many fronts, ranging from mechanisms of nucleation and grain refinement, microstructure evolution during solidification, solutal, hydrodynamic and mechanical interactions in the mushy zone, to process-scale heat and mass transfer. Finally, an understanding of the coupling of some of these aspects of physics can be achieved by targeted experiments and multiscale modeling.
This Special Issue is intended to gather articles reporting latest advances on the following aspects of solidification processing in light metals:
- Grain nucleation and grain refinement.
- Formation of solidification microstructures.
- Mushy zone dynamics (e.g., solidification kinetics in presence of inter-grain interactions, hydrodynamics, rheology).
- Heat and mass transfer and fluid flow at the process scale and the links to microstructure and defect formation (segregation, porosity, deformation and hot tearing) during solidification.
Dr. Miha Zaloznik
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Solidification
- Light metals
- Casting
- Welding
- Additive manufacturing
- Microstructure
- Mushy zone
- Heat and mass transfer
