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Stefanescu, Doru Michael,author

3rd ed. 2015.

1 online resource (XVI, 556 pages 300 illustrations, 100 illustrations in color.)

Length-scale in solidification analysis -- Thermodynamic concepts - Equilibrium and non-equilibrium during solidification -- Nucleation and growth kinetics - Nanoscale solidification -- Fundamentals of transport phenomena as applied to solidification processing -- Diffusive mass transport at the macroscale -- Diffusive energy transport at the macroscale -- Momentum mass transport at the macroscale -- Diffusive mass transport at the microscale - micro-solute redistribution and microsegregation -- Solidification of single-phase alloys - cells and dendrites -- Solidification of two-phase alloys - Micro-scale solidification -- Solidification of multi-component alloys -- Microshrinkage -- Rapid solidification and amorphous alloys -- Semi-solid processing -- Solidification of Metal Matrix Composites -- Multiscale modeling of solidification -- Numerical macro-scale modeling of solidification -- Numerical micro-scale modeling of solidification -- Solidification of some casting alloys of commercial significance