Research on evolution of tilted eutectic structure based on phase field simulation

Abstract The phase field model is established for the eutectic growth system in this paper, and the finite difference method is used to solve the model. The evolution of tilted eutectic interface morphology under isothermal solidification and directional solidification conditions, respectively, was investigated. The effects of solid-solid interface anisotropy, solid-liquid interface anisotropy, eutectic spacing and pulling speed on the evolution of the tilted eutectic structure were simulated to reveal the growth mechanism of the tilted eutectic structure. It is found that under isotropic and directional solidification conditions, eutectic growth is influenced by both of the direction of heat flow and the solid-liquid interface anisotropy. When the solid-solid interface anisotropy is small, the direction of heat flow dominates the growth direction of eutectic structure, and as the solid-solid interface anisotropy increases, the growth direction of eutectic structure starts to tilt. Two kinds of instability phenomena, bifurcation or merger and fault line, are also found in the eutectic growth.