This book offers a blend of academic and industrial papers on topics including advances in controls and process simulation, ingot defect formation and characterization studies, and process parameter-material properties characterization. The collection includes papers on the following topics:
- Primary and Secondary Melt Processing including VIM, VAR, ESR, EBCHR, Plasma Melting
- Physical Property Measurements of Liquid Metals
- Casting and Solidification of Liquid Metals
- Modeling of Metallurgical Processes including Heat/Mass Flow Modeling of Liquid Metal and Solidification
- Ceramic, Slag and Refractory Reactions with Liquid Metals
- Refining, Evaporation and Gas/Metal Reactions
- Fundamentals of Reactions Involving Liquid Metals in Productions Processes