High Performance Computer Codes and their Application to Optimize Crystal Growth Processes

The paper deals with the continuation of the development of high performance computer codes and their application to modelling of crystal growth processes started by the authors’ research groups and reported in [1]. The mathematical model is based on the continuity equation and the conservation equations for momentum and heat transfer combined with mass transfer including chemical reactions. The thermal radiation analysis assumes a non-participating medium and semi-transparent walls. The radiation heat transfer is coupled with convection and conduction. The heat conduction includes thermal solid/fluid interactions between the gas and solid parts of the computational domain. The results of thermal calculations are used for the analysis of thermal stresses. The models are implemented in finite volume (both, block-structured and unstructured on non-orthogonal grids), and spectral and coupled finite volume/spectral numerical solution procedures.

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