Zhengyang Li¹, Wei Guo^1,*, Yueyang Hu¹, Xiao Wang¹, Binbin Qian², Cuifeng Jiang¹

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.11, pp. 2921-2935, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.019258

Abstract Ternesite (4CaO·2SiO₂·CaSO₄)-Ye’elimite (3CaO·3Al₂O₃·CaSO₄) (simplified as TY) cement clinker was successfully prepared from steel slag at 1200°C in this study. XRD, TG/DSC and SEM were used to analyze the mineral composition and hydration products of the TY clinker. The sintering process and hydration mechanism of the TY clinker were investigated. Results show that a large amount of ternesite and ye’elimite have been formed at 1200°C, while ternesite has not been decomposed. Clinker minerals include ternesite, ye’elimite, gypsum and a small amount of iron phase. Iron phase from steel slag can promote the formation of liquid phase with the presence of gypsum… More >

Hiromoto Susawa

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 15-16, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.017.015

Abstract Liquid Phase Epitaxy is a crystal growth on a substrate from liquid solution, which is a melt in this paper. Before growth, a melt is separated from a substrate and supercooled. When growth starts, the melt moves to the substrate. This induces flow in the melt. This paper considers the influence of flow on the composition of solid phase, reviews previous simulation models and introduces a new model. A one-dimensional model explained an experimental result and a major behavior of solid compositional variation. A semi-two-dimensional (semi-2-D) model dealt with transport in the melt as 2-D but substituted the values at… More >

R. Avila¹, F.J. Solorio¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.44, No.2, pp. 177-202, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.044.177

Abstract Heat transfer processes involving phase change either, solidification or melting, appear frequently in nature and in industrial applications. In this paper the convective patterns that arise from a 2D shear driven annular flow (without and with melting), are presented. The convective annular flow with radial gravity can be considered as a simplified model of the atmospheric flow in the terrestrial equatorial plane (bounded by the warm surface of the Earth and the cold tropopause). The governing equations have been numerically solved by the Spectral Element Method. The numerical results reported in this paper, for the cases without melting (at two… More >

M. Sekhon¹, N. Armour¹, S. Dost^1,2

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 Si_xGe_1-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 >

R. Prud’homme¹, M. El Ganaoui²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 161-172, 2007, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2007.003.161

Abstract Some problems related to solid/liquid phase change are presented. Attention is focused on interface modeling for numerical analysis and one-dimensional directional growing and melting. Microgravity relevance of some situations is emphasized. It is shown, in particular, that in some circumstances melting is not the simple reversal of crystal growth due to some (still poorly known) phenomena (nucleation and growth of liquid droplets in the bulk, solid and liquid dendrites due to a morphological instability of the phase boundary). Relevant mathematical models are discussed and described (to a certain extent) for analysis and/or characterization of these phenomena when they are disjoint… More >