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Sensitivity of Viscosity on Molten Ti Infusion into a B4C-Packed Bed at the Microscale

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The effect of the surface tension–viscosity dissipation driving liquid Ti flow into a B4C packed bed was analyzed at 1941 K and 2573 K. The model consisted of randomized size distributions of pores (1 to 10 µm) mimicking a packed bed to determine the depth of infusion. Statistical uncertainty was determined as a function of viscosity and pore geometry. The computations were performed with our in-house software, which incorporates a directed acyclic graph and modified nodal analysis algorithms.

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This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (DE – FE_0026220, DE-FE0002407), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (BAA-AFRL-AFOSR-2016-0007, FA9550-12-1-0242, and FA9550-17-1-0393), XSEDE computational resources (TG-ASC170041), Sandia National Laboratories, and Computational Science and Mechanical Engineering programs at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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    V. M. Krushnarao Kotteda, Arturo Schiaffino, Ashesh Chattopadhyay, Sanjay Shantha-Kumar, Vinod Kumar & Arturo Bronson

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Kotteda, V.M.K., Schiaffino, A., Chattopadhyay, A. et al. Sensitivity of Viscosity on Molten Ti Infusion into a B4C-Packed Bed at the Microscale. Metall Mater Trans B 50, 1559–1565 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-019-01618-9

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