scholarly journals Effect of Rotating Magnetic Field on Microstructure in AlCuSi Alloys

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1804
Author(s):  
Piotr Mikolajczak
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Phase Diagrams ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
Rotating Magnetic Field ◽  
Electromagnetic Stirring ◽  
Number Density ◽  
Calphad Technique ◽  
Almost All

The solidification of AlCuSi alloys with Mn and Fe was studied by rotating a magnetic field to understand the effect of melt flow. The specimens solidified with a forced convection, low cooling rate and low temperature gradient. Electromagnetic stirring generated by an electric coil around the specimens caused a transformation from equiaxed dendritic to rosette morphology, occasionally with spheroids and minor dendrites. The transformation was quantitatively observed with a specific surface Sv, that decreased for almost all alloys and marked the flow effect on α-Al. The computer coupling of phase diagrams and thermochemistry (CALPHAD) technique was applied for the calculation of phase diagrams and property diagrams. Forced convection decreased secondary dendrite arm spacing λ2 in almost all alloys, while it increased slightly in one studied alloy. The length of detrimental β-Al5FeSi phases decreased in the alloy, where β starts to precipitate in the presence of α-Al, while increasing in alloys where β starts as first and grows in the fully liquid melt. The average overall dimension of the Mn-rich phases increased in almost all alloys, and the number density decreased under flow. The modification of spacing for AlSi-eutectics and Al2Cu was analyzed. It was found that the occurrence of Al2Cu does not influence the fluid flow and vice versa.

Swirling Flow of Magnetic Fluid in Multi-Pole Rotating Magnetic Field

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenichi Kamioka ◽  
Ryuichiro Yamane
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Phase Velocity ◽  
Magnetic Fluid ◽  
Swirling Flow ◽  
Peak Velocity ◽  
Rotating Magnetic Field ◽  
Outer Periphery ◽  
The Magnetic Field

The experiments are conducted on the magnetic fluid flow induced by the multi-pole rotating magnetic field in a circular cylinder. The numbers of poles are two, four, six, eight and twelve. The applied electric current and frequency are 2∼6 A and 20∼60 Hz, respectively. The peak velocity of the flow increases with the increase in the strength and the phase velocity of the magnetic field. As the increase in the number of poles, the flow shifts to the outer periphery.

Effect of Rotating Magnetic Field on Microstructure Evolution of Pb-Bi Alloys

2011 ◽  
Vol 311-313 ◽  
pp. 600-608
Author(s):  
Zhao Chen ◽  
Xiao Li Wen ◽  
Chang Le Chen
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Microstructure Evolution ◽  
Solidification Process ◽  
Nucleation And Growth ◽  
Primary Phase ◽  
Rotating Magnetic Field ◽  
Growth Behaviour ◽  
Solidification Behaviour ◽  
40 Hz

Solidification behaviour of Pb-Bi alloys under rotating magnetic field (RMF) was investigated experimentally to understand the effect of the frequency of RMF on the nucleation and growth behaviour. It was found that, as the increase of the rotating frequency, the grains are fragmented and refined gradually until a transition from columnar to equiaxed microstructures happens at a rotating frequency of 40 Hz. Moreover, the Bi concentration of the primary phase decreases and macrosegregation is eliminated effectively with RMF. These are due to the effect of RMF on the nucleation, growth and fluid flow in the solidification process.

Frequency effects of a rotating magnetic field on fluid flow in vertical cylinders

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin Mazuruk ◽  
Narayanan Ramachandran ◽  
Martin P. Volz ◽  
Donald C. Gillies
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Rotating Magnetic Field ◽  
Frequency Effects ◽  
Vertical Cylinders

scholarly journals Rotating magnetic field effect on convection and its stability in a horizontal cylinder subjected to a longitudinal temperature gradient

2010 ◽  
Vol 664 ◽  
pp. 108-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. V. LYUBIMOV ◽  
A. V. BURNYSHEVA ◽  
H. BENHADID ◽  
T. P. LYUBIMOVA ◽  
D. HENRY
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Prandtl Number ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Rotating Magnetic Field ◽  
Shear Mode ◽  
Convective Flows ◽  
Longitudinal Temperature Gradient ◽  
Longitudinal Temperature ◽  
The Cross

A rotating magnetic field (RMF) is used in crystal growth applications during the solidification process in order to improve the crystal quality. Its influence on the convective flows in molten metals and on their stability is studied here in the case of a horizontal infinite cylindrical channel subjected to a longitudinal temperature gradient. The steady convective flows, which correspond to the usual longitudinal counterflow structure, with four vortices in the cross-section for non-zero Prandtl number, Pr, are modified by the RMF (parametrized by the magnetic Taylor number Tam). For zero Prandtl number, the flow in the cross-section corresponds to circular streamlines and the longitudinal flow structure is moved in the direction of the magnetic field rotation, with a decrease in its intensity and an asymptotic variation as 1/Tam. For non-zero Prandtl numbers, depending on the respective values of Tam on one side and Prandtl and Grashof numbers on the other side, different structures ranging from the circular streamlines with transport by rotation of the longitudinal velocity and the temperature field, to the more usual counterflow structure almost insensitive to the RMF with four cross-section vortices, can be obtained. The decrease in the flow intensity with increasing Tam is also delayed for non-zero Pr, but the same asymptotic limit is eventually reached. The stability analysis of these convective flows for Tam = 0 shows a steep increase of the thresholds around Pr = Prt,0 ≈ 3 × 10−4, corresponding to the transition between the usual counterflow shear mode and a new sidewall shear mode. This transition is still present with an RMF, but it occurs for smaller Pr values as Tam is increased. Strong stabilizing effects of the rotating magnetic field are found for Pr < Prt,0, particularly for Pr = 0 where an exponential increase of the threshold with Tam is found. For Pr > Prt,0 (i.e. in the domain where the sidewall instability is dominant), in contrast, the stabilization by the RMF is weak.

scholarly journals Local origin of the strong field-space anisotropy in the magnetic phase diagrams of Ce1−xLaxB6 measured in a rotating magnetic field

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Inosov ◽  
S. Avdoshenko ◽  
P. Y. Portnichenko ◽  
Eun Sang Choi ◽  
A. Schneidewind ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Phase Diagrams ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
Magnetic Phase ◽  
Rotating Magnetic Field ◽  
Local Origin ◽  
Magnetic Phase Diagrams

Effect of a Rotating Magnetic Field on the Solidified Structure of Al-Si Alloys

2006 ◽  
Vol 508 ◽  
pp. 263-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenő Kovác ◽  
András Roósz ◽  
János Szőke
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Microstructure Evolution ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Unidirectional Solidification ◽  
Rotating Magnetic Field ◽  
Electromagnetic Stirring ◽  
Convective Conditions ◽  
Microstructure Formation ◽  
Secondary Dendrite Arm Spacing

The aim of our research work is to study the microstructure formation during casting of technical alloys under diffusive and magnetically controlled convective conditions on earth and in space. Unidirectional solidification experiments under steady-state conditions were performed with Al-Si binary alloys containing three different amounts of Si, using electromagnetic stirring of the melt. The influence of the rotating magnetic field on the microstructure evolution (particularly on the secondary dendrite arm spacing) as compared to experiments without stirring was studied.

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