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Concentration-induced convection of a binary metal melt in a rectangular crucible has been studied numerically in the case of a mixture with a eutectic phase diagram. The calculations are performed for realistic parameters which correspond to the pair of metals Sn-Pb. A solid rod with non-wettable boundaries and a non-uniform longitudinal temperature distribution on the surface is immersed into the melt vertically at the center of the crucible. The condition of complete non-wetting allows us to consider the interface between the melt and the rod to be free. The temperature non-uniformity leads to inhomogeneity of the surface tension. As a result, the thermocapillary force generates a steady convective flow first on the surface of the rod and then in the volume. Due to this motion, the heavy component of the alloy is transferred along the rod’s surface to the butt-end. At the boundary patches with the excess of concentration it has been extracted into the volume by means of the desorption mechanism. In the presence of weak convection in the volume, this component is partially accumulated near the bottom of the crucible under the butt-end. Thus, there takes place a process of separation of heavy admixture for the two-component metal melts.
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Demin, V.A., Mizev, A.I., Petukhov, M.I. et al. Localization of Melt Components in a Crucible as a Result of Inserting Anisothermic Rod with Non-wettable Boundaries. Microgravity Sci. Technol. 32, 89–97 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-019-09744-4
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