Computational Study of Induction Heating Process in Crystal Growth Systems—The Role of Input Current Shape.docVIP

Crystal Structure Theory and Applications, 2012, 1, 114-120 /10.4236/csta.2012.13021 Published Online December 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/csta) Computational Study of Induction Heating Process in Crystal Growth Systems—The Role of Input Current Shape Mohammad Hossein Tavakoli , Tayebe Nadery Mostagir 1* 2 1 Physics Department, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran Department of Physics, Kurdistan University, Sanandaj, Iran mht@basu.ac.ir, mhtvkl@ 2 Email: * Received October 28, 2012; revised November 30, 2012; accepted December 8, 2012 ABSTRACT A set of 2D steady state finite element numerical simulations of electromagnetic fields and heating distribution for an oxide Czochralski crystal growth system was carried out for different input current shapes (sine, square, triangle and sawtooth waveforms) of the induction coil. Comparison between the results presented here demonstrates the importance of input current shape on the electromagnetic field distribution, coil efficiency, and intensity and structure of generated power in the growth setup. Keywords: Computer Simulation; Induction Heating; Czochralski Method; Growth from Melt; Metals 1. Introduction ure 1) on the strength and distribution of the electro- magnetic fields and heat generation in a Czochralski se- tup using the mathematical modeling and computer si- mulation. It should be noted, however, that despite of the differences in the patterns, each pattern is periodic. This point is important for our analysis of the driving current shape, i.e., they can be represented as closely as desired by the combination of a sufficiently large number of si- nusoidal patterns that form a harmonic series (Fourier series). Every non-sinusoidal current pattern consists of a fundamental and a complement of harmonics, which can be considered as a superposition of sine pattern of a fun- damental