Science and Engineering of Casting Solidification
โ Scribed by Professor Doru Michael Stefanescu (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 353
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Length-Scale in Solidification Analysis....Pages 1-3
Thermodynamics of Solidification....Pages 4-19
Macro-Scale Phenomena โ Formation of Macrostructure....Pages 20-30
Macro โ Mass Transport....Pages 31-71
Macro-Energy Transport....Pages 72-93
Macro-Modeling of Solidification. Numerical Approximation Methods....Pages 94-115
Micro-Scale Phenomena and Interface Dynamics....Pages 116-144
Cellular and Dendritic Growth....Pages 145-185
Eutectic Solidification....Pages 186-209
Peritectic and Monotectic Solidification....Pages 210-218
Solidification in the Presence of a Third Phase....Pages 219-252
Atomic Scale Phenomena: Nucleation and Growth....Pages 253-271
Stochastic Modeling of Solidification....Pages 272-283
Macro-Micro Modeling of Solidification of Some Commercial Alloys....Pages 284-321
Back Matter....Pages 322-342
โฆ Subjects
Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Metallic Materials; Partial Differential Equations; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics
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