Sensitivity of Thermophysical Material Properties on Solidification Simulation of Al-Si Binary Alloys

The challenges in the numerical simulation of the solidification of binary alloys are not only in the complexity of the algorithms themselves, but also in the validity of the data used to define the material properties of the various phases to obtain a valid simulation. The effect of material properties on the numerical simulations was investigated in the present study wherein the Al-3 wt pct Si hypoeutectic binary alloy was solidified such …