The hydrodynamic effects of molten surface of titanium alloy on the morphology evolution by intense pulsed ion beam （IPIB） irradiation are studied. It is experimentally revealed that under irradiation of IPIB pulses...The hydrodynamic effects of molten surface of titanium alloy on the morphology evolution by intense pulsed ion beam （IPIB） irradiation are studied. It is experimentally revealed that under irradiation of IPIB pulses, the surface morphology of titanium alloy in a spatial scale of μm exhibits an obvious smoothening trend. The mechanism of this phenomenon is explained by the mass transfer caused by the surface tension of molten metal. Hydrodynamic simulation with a combination of the finite element method and the level set method reveals that the change in curvature on the molten surface leads to uneven distribution of surface tension. Mass transfer is caused by the relief of surface tension, and meanwhile a flattening trend in the surface morphology evolution is achieved.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 1175012the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No 2016M600897the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant No 2013ZX04001-071
文摘The hydrodynamic effects of molten surface of titanium alloy on the morphology evolution by intense pulsed ion beam （IPIB） irradiation are studied. It is experimentally revealed that under irradiation of IPIB pulses, the surface morphology of titanium alloy in a spatial scale of μm exhibits an obvious smoothening trend. The mechanism of this phenomenon is explained by the mass transfer caused by the surface tension of molten metal. Hydrodynamic simulation with a combination of the finite element method and the level set method reveals that the change in curvature on the molten surface leads to uneven distribution of surface tension. Mass transfer is caused by the relief of surface tension, and meanwhile a flattening trend in the surface morphology evolution is achieved.
