PanSolidification

PanSolidification is a module of Pandat™ software designed to simulate solidification behavior under a variety of conditions with different cooling rates. It is an extension of the Scheil model taking into consideration of back diffusion in the solid, secondary dendrite arm coarsening, and the formation of eutectic structure.

Figure 1:  An overall architecture of the PanSolidification module

It is seamlessly integrated with the user-friendly Pandat™ Graphical User Interface (PanGUI) as well as thermodynamic calculation engine, PanEngine. The implementation of PanEngine guarantees reliable input data, such as chemical potential, phase equilibrium and mobility. Figure 1 shows an overall architecture of the PanSolidification module.