Rotation effects on the convection of binary alloys unidirectionally solidified from below (Q1276673)

Rotation thought as an effective method to prohibit the formation of freckles of a binary alloy unidirectionally solidified from below in the present paper we show that this is true only under restrictive conditions. A linear stability analysis is implemented for the system consisting of a dendritic mushy region underlying a bulk fluid region and rotating uniformly about a vertical axis. Emphasis is placed on the rotation effects on the competition between the convection modes, which has a direct influence on the formation of freckles. Results show that rotation generally enhances the stability of the convection modes, but the enhancement is not significant until the rotation speed is very high (such as \(10^5\) rpm), which in some sense agrees well with the previous numerical and experimental results.