MICRESS Forum

Dear Raghav, "korn" is german and means "grain". The .korn file is a graphical output containing the numbers which are assigned to grains in a consecutive manner when they are defined in the initial grain structure or nucleated during runtime. The grain number is not a physical property, but allows ...

Hi Antoine, of course there is no general rule. If I start a new calculation in the field of solidification of metals, I start trying with about the following values: interface mobility (cm4/(Js): - solid liquid interface for solid solution phase (e.g. fcc-liq): 0.1-0.01 - solid-liquid interface for...

Hi Antoine, I did not say that one "should" use very high resolution and high interface mobilities! I was just stating that if we could afford a very high resolution we would just have to set the mobility high enough and everything would be fine. But in practically all cases we cannot afford such a ...

Hi Antoine, If latent heat is used in a 2D MICRESS simulation, a 3D correction may be necessary, depending on the symmetry of the simulation domain. If all three spacial directions are equivalent like in equiaxed solidification, the 2D shape corresponds to a projection of the 3D structure to the 2D ...

Hi Antoine,

Of course, you are right, it was a misprint, the average solutal undercooling is decreased!

Sorry for that...

Bernd

Dear Raghav, This type of errors occur if there is a convergence problem in the calculation of the quasi-equilibrium – in your case between the phases 0 and 2. It can happen for example if the system is very far from local equilibrium and ranges in the thermodynamic database are accessed which are n...