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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2011 May;83(5):050601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.050601. Epub 2011 May 12.

Solidification along the interface between demixed liquids in monotectic systems.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

C Hüter, G Boussinot, E A Brener, D E Temkin

Affiliations

  1. Computational Materials Design Department, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany.

PMID: 21728473 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.050601

Abstract

The steady-state solidification along the liquid-liquid interface in the monotectic system is discussed. A boundary-integral formulation describing the diffusion in the two liquid phases is given and the corresponding equations for the three interfaces (two solid-liquid interfaces and one liquid-liquid interface) are solved. Scaling relations are extracted from the results and supported by analytic arguments in the limit of small deviation from the monotectic temperature. We present also a complementary phase-field simulation, which proves the stability of the process.

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