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Dendritic to globular morphology transition in ternary alloy solidification

Denis Danilov, Britta Nestler

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0501494

Abstract

The evolution of solidification microstructures in ternary metallic alloys is investigated by adaptive finite element simulations of a general multicomponent phase-field model. A morphological transition from dendritic to globular growth is found by varying the alloy composition at a fixed undercooling. The dependence of the growth velocity and of the impurity segregation in the solid phase on the composition is analyzed and indicates a smooth type of transition between the dendritic and globular growth structures.

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