Dynamics of solidification in binary melts during rapid cooling II. Analysis of basic equations

Abstract

In the first part of our paper we have derived a set of stochastic differential equations which describe the solidification of binary melts. The equations have been derived within the framework of the model in which the mass and heat transport and the kinetics of the phase transition is considered. In the second part of our paper we present the analysis of the set of general equations. On the basis of this analysis it will be obvious which approximations can be used for the solution of the basic equations in a particular regime of solidification. The adiabatic approximation is one of them. Another situation occurs when the thermodynamic conditions of the phase transformation change fast with time. The system not only moves away from thermodynamic equilibrium but also we can observe inertia of the system, which results in a delay of the evolution of the system respecting the steady-state regime (e.g. the nucleation processes) and the adiabatic approximation cannot be assumed. Concluding this paper, the method used in paper [13] to describe the nucleation in binary systems is presented as an example of the solution of the set of general equations in the case where the adiabatic approximation cannot be adopted.