Science and Engineering of Casting Solidification, Second Edition

• Main Author: Stefanescu, Doru Michael. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Hydraulic engineering.; Engineering design.; Machinery.; Materials.; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools.; Engineering Design.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Metallic Materials.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b135947

Science and Engineering of Casting Solidification, Second Edition covers the essentials of solidification science of metals and alloys at macro- and micro-length scales at cooling rates specific to commercial castings and rapid solidification processing. The mathematical fundamentals necessary to bu...

Table of Contents:

• Length-Scale In Solidification Analysis
• Equilibrium and non-equilibrium during solidification
• Macro-scale phenomena - general equations
• Macro-mass transport
• Macro-energy transport
• Numerical Macro-modeling of solidification
• Micro-scale phenomena and interface dynamics
• Cellular and dendritic growth
• Eutectic solidification
• Peritectic solidification.-Monotectic solidification
• Microstructures obtained through rapid solidification
• Solidification in the presence of a third phase
• Numerical micro-modeling of solidification
• Atomic scale phenomena - Nucelation and growth.