Numerical study of heat transfer and solidification behavior of gas-atomized Fe-6.5%Si (mass fraction) droplets

doi:10.1007/s40436-016-0141-x

Abstract

Abstract:

During spray atomization process, the heat transfer and solidification of droplets play very important roles for the deposition quality. Due to the difficulties of experimental approach, a numerical model is developed, which integrates liquid undercooling, nucleation recalescence and post-recalescence growth to present the full solidification process of Fe-6.5%Si (mass fraction) droplet. The droplet velocity, temperature, cooling rate as well as solid fraction profiles are simulated for droplets with different sizes to demonstrate the critical role of the size effect during the solidification process of droplets. The relationship between the simulated cooling rate and the experimentally obtained secondary dendrite arm spacing is in excellent agreement with the well-established formula. The pre-constant and exponent values lie in the range of various rapid solidified Fe-based alloys reported, which indicates the validity of the numerical model.

Key words: Fe-6.5%Si (mass fraction) alloy, Gas atomization, Solidification, Heat transfer, Numerical simulation

Ke-Feng Li, Yun-Hu Zhang, Chang-Jiang Song, Qi-Jie Zhai. Numerical study of heat transfer and solidification behavior of gas-atomized Fe-6.5%Si (mass fraction) droplets[J]. Advances in Manufacturing, 2016, 4(2): 150-156.

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