Morphological stability diagram for slowly and rapidly solidifying binary systems

Abstract

AbstractA linear morphological stability of the solid-liquid interface is analyzed for a binary alloy in the limit of low and high crystal growth velocities. Using the result of this analysis, a diagram of morphologies is derived for a whole range of solidification rates with indicating critical growth velocities for the transitions planar front ⇔ cellular/dendritic structure. It is specially noted that the speed of solute diffusion in the bulk liquid limits the absolute chemical stability velocity from the high-rate transition cells/dendrites ⇒ planar front.