M. Sekhon1, N. Armour1, S. Dost1,2
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 331-351, 2013, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.331
Abstract Liquid Phase Diffusion (LPD) growth of SixGe1-x single crystals has been numerically simulated under zero gravity. The objective was to examine growth rate and silicon concentration distribution in the LPD grown crystals under diffusion dominated mass transport prior to the planned LPD space experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). Since we are interested in predicting growth rate and crystal composition, the gravitational fluctuation of the ISS (g-jitter) was neglected and the gravity level was taken as zero for simplicity.
A fixed grid approach has been utilized for the simulation. An integrated top-level solver was developed in OpenFOAM to carry… More >
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