Numerical Modeling of a Metallic Alloy Droplet Impact, Solidification, and Macrosegregation

Ehsan Amani; Ali Moinirad

doi:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2026.105913

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Numerical Modeling of a Metallic Alloy Droplet Impact, Solidification, and Macrosegregation

Ehsan Amani·Ali Moinirad

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For the first time, we study the effects of mass transfer on alloy droplet impact, solidification, and solute non-homogeneity or MacroSegregation (MS). For this purpose, a multi-physics model, including fully-coupled hydrodynamics of multiphase flow, wetting, conjugate heat transfer, phase change, and mass transfer, is established and validated carefully across several benchmarks. In addition, a concentration-flux-correction algorithm is proposed to conserve the solute mass within the droplet at the numerical discretization level. The validated model is subsequently used to explore the impact and solidification of an alloy droplet. The results show that accounting for mass transfer and solute transport improves the prediction of the dynamics of a solidifying splat, in a consistent manner with experimental observations, while this effect has been neglected in all previous studies. The analysis demonstrates that this improvement results from the flow sensitivity to the mushy region thickness, which is regulated by local solute concentration through the solidus and liquidus temperatures. Furthermore, analyses of the MS map identify several critical segregation regions most susceptible to defect initiation, such as cracking, including a long negatively segregated vein within the lamella, formed by the severe advective flow through the mush in the middle stages of the impact, a positively segregated region near the rim of the splat, appearing as a result of hook formation, and a major positively segregated zone at the top of the rim, which develops following the accumulation of the solute-rich melt sustained by washout from the lamella.

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Ehsan Amani, Ali Moinirad. 2026-10-11. Numerical Modeling of a Metallic Alloy Droplet Impact, Solidification, and Macrosegregation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2026.105913

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