Ultrasonic Treatment of Light Alloy Melts

Georgy I. Eskin is a world-renowned expert and pioneer in the application of ultrasound in metals processing, specifically in degassing, filtration, and grain refinement of aluminum and magnesium alloys. He holds over 100 patents in ultrasonic melt processing and has authored and co-authored more than 400 scientific papers and 11 monographs, reference books, and textbooks. A full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, he has worked in industry as a research scientist (1956-1967), in the All-Russia Institute of Light Alloys (1967-2012) as a senior and principal scientist, and in the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (1990-1996) as a professor. He has received A State Award of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1986) and a Vernadsky Medal of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1999) for his achievements in metallurgy.Dmitry G. Eskin is a well-known specialist in physical metallurgy of light metals. His main scientific contributions are to the formation of structure and defects during solidification of aluminum alloys, alloy development, ultrasonic processing of aluminum alloys, and fundamentals of ultrasonic processing. He is currently a professor at Brunel University of London (UK). He has authored and co-authored more than 350 scientific papers, 5 patents, and 7 monographs, including the 2nd Edition of this book. Previously he worked in the Baikov Institute of Metallurgy (Russian Academy of Sciences) as a senior scientist and held various senior research and academic positions with the Netherlands Institute for Metals Research, Materials innovation institute, Delft University of Technology, and Tomsk State University. He has received TMS Warren Peterson Cast Shop for Aluminum Production Awards (2011, 2013), TMS Aluminum Technology Award (2013) and TSU Mendeleev Medal (2018).Koulis A. Pericleous, is a well-known expert in providing engineering solutions to most challenging multi-disciplinary engineering problems. He is a Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics in the University of Greenwich (UK), co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis (CNMPA). He specializes in metal processing in the liquid phase with all the associated coupled multi-physics phenomena and is an international leader in this field. He has published widely (300+ journal papers) on a range of scientific, industrial, and environmental subjects. In the last 15 years, he and his team have been involved in the advanced modelling of ultrasonic processing. He is one of the inventors of the Contactless Ultrasonic Process. He has received the British Foundry Medal and Prize (2014) and the TMS Light Metals Award (2021). Iakovos Tzanakis is a leading expert in cavitation processing and bubble dynamics; he is a professor in Oxford Brookes University (UK) where he leads the Sustainable and Resilient Futures (SRF) Network, the Materials Processing and Modelling (MPM) Group, and directs the Ultrasonics Cavitation Processing (CAV-iT) Lab. His research spans acoustic and hydrodynamic cavitation, with key contributions to ultrasonic processing visualization, acoustic measurements, melt processing and ultrasonic atomization for additive manufacturing. He is also recognized for his work in wind energy, 2D nanomaterials and the treatment of ‘forever chemicals’. He has authored over 100 scientific publications.

• 1. Historical Overview of Ultrasonic Applications to Metallurgy. 2. Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Melt Processing. 3. Modelling of Ultrasonic Melt Processing. 4. Ultrasonic Degassing. 5. Ultrasonic Filtration. 6. Ultrasonic Grain Refinement. 7. Refinement of Primary Particles. 8. Ultrasonic Processing during Direct-Chill Casting of Light Alloys. 9. Ultrasonic Melt Processing during Shape Casting of Light Alloys. 10. Ultrasonic Processing of Composite and Immiscible Alloys. 11. Ultrasound-assisted Rapid Solidification and Additive Manufacturing. 12. Ultrasound-assisted Zone Refining of Aluminum. 13. Semisolid Deformation of Billets with Nondendritic Structure. 14. Ultrasonic Melt Processing: Practical Issues.