Phase Change with Convection: Modelling and Validation
Invited Lecturers
- Gustav Amberg (Royal Inst. of Technology, Stokholm, Sweden)
6 lectures on: Mullins-Sekerka instabilities, microsegregation, mushy zones, chimneys and dendrites – fundamentals and practical approach; convective effects, phase field model, basics of models for macro-segregation in ingots.
- Piotr Furmanski (Warsaw University of Tech., Warsaw, Poland)
6 lectures on: Microscopic-macroscopic modelling of transport phenomena during solidification in heterogeneous systems; mushy zone of binary alloys, in manufacture; averaging procedures; thermodynamic and topological relations.
- Dominique Gobin (Univers. Paris VI & Par. XI, Orsay, France)
6 lectures on: Coupling between natural convection and phase change for pure substances or binary mixtures; basic ideas on natural convection (fundamentals, equations, scaling laws and correlations): thermal convection, double diffusive convection; validation problems for phase change with convection; challenging issues for the simulation of solidification processes.
- Tomasz A. Kowalewski (Inst. Fund. Technol. Research/PAN, Warsaw, Poland)
5 lectures on: Experimental methods and benchmarks for numerical simulation of phase change problems; initial, boundary conditions and sensitivity analysis; full field measurements, advanced optical measuring techniques, PIV, interferometry, thermography, tomographic methods.
- Bozidar Sarler (Nova Gorica Polytechnic , Nova Gorica, Slovenia)
6 lectures on: Solid-liquid phase change research: history, numerical methods and casting applications; boundary element and meshless methods for phase change problems, simulation and optimisation of continuous casting of steel.
- Fulvio Stella (Univ. di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)
6 lectures on: Numerical methods for phase change problems in praxis; requirements of numerical solvers; comparison of different numerical approaches; directional solidification; micro-gravity conditions; commercial codes in solidification problems.