Abstract
ABSTRACTSimulations of directional solidification of binary peritectic TiAl alloys through ceramic preforms consisting of narrow straight channels with spacings on the order of the dendritic tip radius were performed with a modified cellular automaton coupled to a finite volume calculation of solute diffusion. Depending upon the channel spacing, the microstructure may be refined after dendritic growth through the preform. As the channel width decreases, the lateral solute diffusion in the liquid is more constrained, changing the morphology of the primary phase from dendritic to cellular. In narrow channels, the liquid concentration gradient ahead of the solid/liquid interface decreases resulted in lower growth velocities and higher undercoolings. For hypo-peritectic TiAl alloys, growth conditions that lead to growth of β dendrites can result in α nucleation and growth in narrow channels due to the geometric constraint on solute diffusion.
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