Thermal analysis of solidification by the temperature recovery method

Abstract Solidification plays a very important role in processing of both conventional and advanced composite materials. The purpose of this research work was to develop a mathematical modeling technique which is able to solve the heat transfer problem associated with the phase change in solidification. A temperature recovery method was proposed to handle the latent heat generation for both the cases of congruent solidification and mushy-zone solidification. This scheme was implemented in a nonlinear finite element program by which some numerical calculation has been carried out. The results showed good agreement with the available analytical solutions.

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