Empirical and Semi-Empirical Relationships of Liquid-Vapor, Solid-Vapor, and Solid-Liquid Surface Energies

Abstract

Surface energy, frequently referred to as surface tension, plays a critical role in materials processing and the evolution of a material's microstructure and properties. Processes critically dependent upon surface energy include casting, rapid solidification processes, flotation separation, smelting, degassing of liquid metals and solidification processing to name a few. However, despite its technological importance, there is a dearth of credible surface energy data available for most alloys and a number of elements. This paper serves as a compilation of useful data and presents correlations that may be used to estimate surface energy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA276480

Entities

People

  • William E. Frazier

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Divison

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Chemical Compounds
  • Chemistry
  • Engineering
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Of Vaporization
  • Latent Heat
  • Materials
  • Materials Engineering
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Metallurgy
  • Phase Transformations
  • Standards
  • Surface Energy
  • Thermodynamics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Metallurgy
  • Systems Analysis and Design