Jonathan A. Dantzig Books

Solidification is a crucial process for creating complex shapes used in various applications, from art to industry. It remains a vital commercial technology for many materials. Since the 1980s, significant advancements in understanding solidification processes and microstructure formation have emerged from analytical theories and computational techniques. This comprehensive volume integrates these developments while contextualizing them within classical theories. The text is divided into three sections, progressing from fundamentals to applications, providing engineers and students with a solid foundation for practical use. The first section, Fundamentals and Macroscale Phenomena, covers thermodynamics of solutions and equilibrium phase diagrams, followed by an exploration of transport phenomena critical to liquid-solid phase transformations, detailing both analytical and numerical problem-solving approaches. The second section, Microstructure, applies these fundamental concepts to nucleation, dendritic growth, microsegregation, and solidification processes, concluding with a discussion on the interplay between macro- and microscopic phenomena in microstructure development. The final section focuses on defects, emphasizing porosity, hot tearing, and macrosegregation, utilizing the modeling tools and microstructure insights established earlier. Additional resources, including software and figures, are available on the autho