Preface to the Special Issue on 'Cutting Edge of Computer Simulation of Solidification, Casting and Refining'

摘要

Fifteen years ago, "The 1st International Symposium on Cutting Edge of Computer Simulation of Solidification and Casting (CSSC 1999)" took place at Osaka University in Osaka, Japan. However, thereafter the conference was discontinued. During the first decade of this century, the phase field method, the cellular automaton method, and the in-situ synchrotron X-ray imaging remarkably evolved as general tools for the investigation of solidification, casting and resulting micro-structure formation. Based on this progress, the conference was resumed and the 2nd symposium (CSSC2010) was held on February 3 to 5, 2010 at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, in cooperation with the solidification and structure formation forum of ISIJ. The success of the second symposium initiated the development of a scientific tradition of this symposium, namely to regularly hold it every 3 years and to alternate between the East and the West part of the globe.