Abstract:Considering both the effect of nonisothermal nature of the solid/liquid interface and the microscopic solvability theory (MicST), a further improved version of free dendritic growth model for pure materials was proposed. Model comparison indicates that there is a higher temperature at the tip of dendrite predicted by the present model compared with the corresponding model with the isothermal solid/liquid interface assumption. This is attributed to the sidewise thermal diffusion, i.e. the gradient of temperature along the nonisothermal interface. Furthermore, it is indicated that the distinction between the stability criteria from MicST and marginal stability theory (MarST) is more significant with the increase of bath undercoolings. Model test also indicates that the present model can give an agreement with the available experimental data. It is finally concluded that the nonisothermal nature of the solid/liquid interface and the stability criterion from MicST should be taken into account in modeling free dendritic growth.

Key words: dendrite; solidification; modeling; interface; microscopic solvability theory