Effects of argon flow on melt convection and interface shape in a directional solidification process for an industrial-size solar silicon ingot

Effects of argon flow on heat transfer i

Effects of argon flow on heat transfer in a directional solidification process for silicon solar cells

✍ Zaoyang Li; Lijun Liu; Wencheng Ma; Koichi Kakimoto 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 759 KB

A global heat transfer model, including the melt convection, argon flow, thermal conduction, thermal radiation and fully coupled boundary conditions, was developed to investigate the argon flow effect on the temperature distribution and melt convection in a directional solidification furnace for sil