Monday, May 22

MS10
Multiscale Approaches for the Evolution of Microstructure in Solidification Processes

3:30-5:30 PM
Room: Constitution

In industrial solidification processes often a specific "dendritic" microstructure is observed. It influences the properties of the material and its evolution depends on the macroscopic solidification conditions. Solidification is nowadays well understood on a macroscopic scale. The modeling of crystal growth has also seen considerable progress; models based on surface evolution, energy minimization and phase field models have been studied. A challenging subject is the coupling of microscopic and macroscopic scales. In the minisymposium, the speakers will present different models for the simulation of microstructure, crystal growth and grain structure. They will discuss possibilities of coupling the microscopic and macroscopic scales.

Organizers: Peter Knabner and Georg Müller
University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany

Chair: Christof Eck
University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

3:30-3:55 Multi-phase/Multi-scale Modeling of Alloy Solidification

Christoph Beckermann, University of Iowa, USA; and Chao-Yang Wang, Pennsylvania State University, USA

4:00-4:25 Modeling of Crystal Growth and Two Scale Models for Solidification

Christof Eck, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany and Peter Knabner, Organizer

4:30-4:55 Mesoscopic Modeling of Grain Structure using Cellular Automata

Rainer Backofen, University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany and Georg Müller, Organizer

5:00-5:25 Modeling of Microstructure during Solidification using Fully Faceted Interfaces

Sergey Korotov, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany and Peter Knabner, Organizer