Phase-field study of competitive dendritic growth of converging grains during directional solidification

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The microstructure evolution of grains with different orientations during directional solidification is investigated by the phase-field method. For converging dendrites, in addition to the usually accepted overgrowth pattern wherein the favorably oriented dendrites block the unfavorably oriented ones, the opposite pattern of overgrowth observed in some recent experiments is also found in our simulations. The factors which may induce this unusual overgrowth are analyzed. It is found that in addition to the difference in tip undercooling, the solute interaction of converging dendrites, which has been ignored in the classical theoretical model, also has a significant effect on the nature of the overgrowth at low pulling velocities. Solute interaction can retard the growth of dendrites at the grain boundary (GB) and induce a lag of these dendrites relative to their immediate neighbors, which gives the unfavorably oriented dendrite the possibility to overgrow the favorably oriented one. However, this unusual overgrowth only occurs when the spacing between the favorably oriented GB dendrite and its immediate favorably oriented neighbor decreases to a certain level through lateral motion. These findings can broaden our understanding of the overgrowth mechanism of converging dendrites.

源语言英语
页(从-至)1478-1493
页数16
期刊Acta Materialia
60
4
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 2月 2012

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