Qy. Han et al., MODELS FOR THE ISOTHERMAL COARSENING OF SECONDARY DENDRITE ARMS IN MULTICOMPONENT ALLOYS, Metallurgical and materials transactions. B, Process metallurgy and materials processing science, 28(6), 1997, pp. 1185-1187
Models for the isothermal coarsening of secondary dendrite arms for bi
nary alloys are simply expanded to correlate the secondary dendrite ar
m spacing to local solidification time, melting temperature of the liq
uid, and the properties of the solute elements in multicomponent alloy
s. An equation is derived: Calculations using the equation show reason
able qualitative agreement with experiment.