Comptes rendus Académie des sciences, Mécanique, tome 335, fasc 5-6, Mai-Juin 2007 : melting and solidification : processes and models

Foreword/Avant-propos. Secondary and oscillatory gravitational instabilities in canonical three-dimensional models of crystal growth from the melt. Part 1: Rayleigh-Bénard systems. Secondary and oscillatory gravitational instabilities in canonical three-dimensional models of crystal growth from the melt. Part 2: lateral heating and the Hadley circulation. 3D macrosegregation simulation with anisotropic remeshing. A thermo-hydraulic numerical model to study spot laser welding. Three-dimensional finite lement model for metal displacement and heat transfer in squeeze casting processes. Lattice Boltzmann method for melting/solidification problems. Thermal vibrational convection in a two-phase stratified liquid. Theoretical confirmation of the crystallization of a compound alloy using the AHP crystal growth method. Controlling the growth interface shape in the growth of CdTe single crystals by the traveling heater method. Control of melt convection by a travelling magnetic filed during the directional solidification of Al-Ni alloys. A quasi two-dimensional benchmark experiment for the solidification of a tin-lead binary alloy. Geometry of the melting interface in cylindrical metal rods under microgravity conditions. Modeling fragmentation of plasma-sprayed particles impacting on a solid surface at room temperature.