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Thermophysical property measurements by electromagnetic levitation melting technique under microgravity
Sayavur I Bakhtiyarov1, Ruel A Overfelt
1Solidification Design Center, Auburn University, Alabama 36849-5341, USA. sayavurb@eng.auburn.edu
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|November 26, 2002
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to review the advances in electromagnetic levitation techniques as tools for determination of the thermophysical properties of molten metals under standard gravity and microgravity conditions. We show that a combination of containerless processing and microgravity offers the exclusive possibility to measure critical thermophysical properties of molten metals, both above and below their melting points, over a wide temperature range, and with high accuracy.