Short description Bringing together the top international researchers in the field, this reference explains the fundamentals and applications, covering the background needed to make solids from melts with defined properties -- on earth and in space.
From the contents Containerless undercooling of drops and droplets Computer aided experiments in containerless processing of materials Demixing of Cu-Co alloys showing a metastable miscibility gap Short range order in undercooled melts Influence of order in undercooled liquids on crystal nucleation Crystal nucleation in undercooled melts Phase field crystal modelling of homogeneous and heterogeneous crystal nucleation Effects of transient heat and mass transfer and competitive nucleation on phase selection in rapid solidification Nucleation of metastable phases in undercooled melts Nucleation within the mushy-zone Measurements of crystal growth velocities in undercooled melts of metals Measurements of crystal growth in undercooled melts of semiconductors Measurements of crystal growth dynamics in strong external magnetic fields Influence of convection on dendrite growth dynamics by AC + DC levitation technique Development of a numerical approach for modelling dendritic growth in EML of liquid metal drops Mesoscopic modelling of dendrite growth in undercooled melts Microscopic modelling of growth kinetics in undercooled melts Multiscale solidification modelling of EML processed samples Interaction of fine particles with dendrites in undercooled melts of semiconducting materials Quantitative analysis of alloy structures solidified under limited diffusion conditions
