Alpha-Mg树枝晶三维形貌研究I：相场建模.docVIP

  Study of three-dimensional morphology of α-Mg dendrite I: Phase-field modeling# 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 WANG Mingyue, SHUAI Sansan, JING Tao** (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084) Abstract: The main objective of the present study is to establish numerically a fundamental understanding of the three-dimensional (3D) dendritic morphologies of primary alpha-Mg solid solution phase using phase-field modeling. An expression is proposed for the anisotropic function of crystal-melt interfacial free energy for hexagonal metals, based on the combination of experiments and crystal structure. The phase field model of alloys, whose density free energy is built on the basis of thermodynamic extended substitutional-regular-solution approximation, incorporated into anisotropic function reflecting hexagonal symmetry, is established. The governing equations for a dilute binary alloy are derived, and numerical computations are implemented. The three-dimensional dendritic morphologies of magnesium alloys microstructures, whose hierarchical branches can be seen clearly, are obtained, which have been well in agreement with experimental results and are obviously different from that of would be usually expected. Key words: phase-field;solidification; alpha-Mg; three-dimensioanl morphologies; dendrite 0 Introduction The nature of solidified microstructures, with the following processes, controls the properties and qualities of the final product [1]. One of the most widely studied solidification microstructures, and also one of the most aesthetically pleasing, is the dendrite, with the best known example being the snowflake. The critical role of dendritic growth in many important natural and technological processes makes understanding the mechanism of hierarchical branches a high-priority research endeavor [2-4]. The nature of morphologies and orientations of alloys microstructures is of particular interest because it sets the segregation in the inte