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Published on: June 13, 2015
Solidification along the interface between demixed liquids in monotectic systems
C Hüter1, G Boussinot, E A Brener
1Computational Materials Design Department, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Abstract:
The steady-state solidification along the liquid-liquid interface in the monotectic system is discussed. A boundary-integral formulation describing the diffusion in the two liquid phases is given and the corresponding equations for the three interfaces (two solid-liquid interfaces and one liquid-liquid interface) are solved. Scaling relations are extracted from the results and supported by analytic arguments in the limit of small deviation from the monotectic temperature. We present also a complementary phase-field simulation, which proves the stability of the process.
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