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Directional Solidification of a Faceted Crystal

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When a dilute binary mixture is pulled at constant velocity V in an external thermal gradient G, the solid-liquid interface exhibits a morphological instability when V becomes larger than a threshold velocity Vc(G). For V < Vc the stationary interface is planar, for V > Vc it develops a (quasi)periodic cellular structure. This instability, first analyzed by Mullins and Sekerka(1), results from the competition between the destabilizing effect of solute diffusion and the stabilization due to the thermal gradient and to capillarity.

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Caroli, B., Caroli, C., Roulet, B. (1990). Directional Solidification of a Faceted Crystal. In: Busse, F.H., Kramer, L. (eds) Nonlinear Evolution of Spatio-Temporal Structures in Dissipative Continuous Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 225. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5793-3_45

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