About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Materials Research in Reduced Gravity
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| Presentation Title |
Magnetohydrodynamic Flow in Electromagnetic Levitation Experiments on Iron-Copper Samples |
| Author(s) |
Gwendolyn P. Bracker, Regan W. Krizan, Benedikt Reiplinger, Stephan Schneider, Mitja Beckers, Robert W. Hyers |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Gwendolyn P. Bracker |
| Abstract Scope |
In Electromagnetic Levitation, the uniform appearance of metallic melts usually prevent the direct observation of fluid flow within the sample. For experiments that require details of the fluid flow, computational fluid dynamics models are used. The direct observation of the flow itself requires trackable features, as can be achieved using a two-phase liquid when the phases have differing emissivities. For a liquid system to self-segregate, the components of the system must have a large miscibility gap, as occurs in the iron-copper system. Due to the melt separation in the iron-copper system, the fluid flow can be directly observed and compared to existing model systems. Electromagnetic levitation was used in both ground-based and parabolic-flight-based investigations on compositions within the iron-copper binary system. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Modeling and Simulation, Phase Transformations, |