Experimental work was undertaken to investigate the effect of rotation speed on the solidification microstructure of AZ91D alloy using a twin-screw slurry maker.Then numerical simulation was used to investigate the effect of rotation speed on the flow filed and temperature field of the melt.It was found that increasing the rotation speed could give rise to substantial grain refinement,which can be attributed to the increase of effective nucleation rate caused by the extremely uniform temperature and dispersing any potential clusters of nucleation agents in the bulk liquid under dispersive mixing.
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