Grain Selection During Solidification In Spiral Grain Selector
Casting
A macro-scale ProCAST and a meso-scale Cellular Automaton Finite Element model (CAFE) are used to simulate the competitive growth and grain selection during solidification in spiral grain selector, which is widely used in industry to produce single crystal turbine blades.
"By H.J. Dai1, J-C. Gebelin2, M. Newell2,3, R.C. Reed2, N.D’Souza3, P.D. Brown3, H.B. Dong1,3.
(1 Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK, 2 Department of Materials, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK, 3 Rolls-Royce plc, P.O. Box 31, Derby, DE24 8BJ, UK)
Superalloys 2008"