Table 3 Thermophysical properties of Au, Zr and Ti39.5Zr39.5Ni21.

From: MHD surrogate model for convection in electromagnetically levitated molten metal droplets processed using the ISS-EML facility

Material

Tm (K)

ρ (kg m−3)

µ (Pa s)

σel (S m−1)

Au

1337

19,300 (1.13 × 10−8 T2 + 6.16 × 10−5 T + 1.03)−1 18

\(\mu _0{\mathrm{exp}}(2.65T_m^{1.27}/(RT))\)19

(2.10 × 10−14 T2 + 1.13 × 10−10 T + 1.47 × 10−7)−1 18

Zr

2128

−0.27 (T − Tm) + 6090 20

−5.31 × 10−6(T−Tm) + 4.83 × 10−3 21

(8.74 × 10−11 T + 1.26 × 10−6)−1 18

Ti39.Zr39.5Ni21

1093

−0.188T + 6162 22

μ0exp (DVFTT0/(T − T0))23a

(4.38 × 10−13 T2−1.41 × 10−9 T + 2.86 × 10−6)−1 [unpublished data]b

  1. aReference uses a Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann (VFT) fit and an Arrhenius fit. We use the VFT fit in our calculations as it better represents the glass-forming properties of TiZrNi. µ0 = 0.00225 Pa*s, DVFT = 1.88, T0 = 686.25 K.
  2. bData from ISS EML Batch 2 resistivity measurement.
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