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     COLLOQUIUM OF THE COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTER
                                AND 
           THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL & DATA SCIENCES
                            (CSI 898-Sec 001)
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           Dynamics of Mushy Layers in Alloy Solidification

                            Daniel Anderson
Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

The solidification of binary and multicomponent alloys occurs in many 
industrial and geophysical systems.  Often in these systems instabilities 
of the solid/liquid interface lead to dendritic regions that separate 
completely solid regions from the liquid region. These so-called mushy 
layers have important consequences for heat and solute transfer between 
the solid and liquid regions.  

In this talk we outline mathematical models and their connection to 
laboratory experiments that help understand the physical processes occurring 
in these systems. Novel fluid dynamical phenomena that occur in mushy layers 
will be discussed for binary and ternary systems.  

                           March 28, 2016
                               4:30 pm
                    Exploratory Hall, room 3301 
                          Fairfax Campus

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM.
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