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15 - General Engineering
University of Hull
A quantitative study of solute diffusion field effects on heterogeneous nucleation and the grain size of alloys
This research quantifies, for the first time, the effects of the solute diffusion zone around growing grains during alloy solidification on the nucleation ability of inoculating particles inside the solute diffusion zone. It adds one more dimension of physics to the free growth model for inoculating particles proposed in 2000 by Professor Lindsay Greer of Cambridge University. The work led to: (1) a Royal Society Industry Fellowship for Mi (to work with Doncasters Group Ltd on solidification technology); (2) a major award to Da Shu (Natural Science Foundation, China) to study nucleation and grain growth in highly dynamic solidification conditions.
