NUMERICAL MODELING OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL
UNSTEADY CONVECTION OF A SILICON MELT IN A VESSEL 
TYPICAL OF CZOCHRALSKI-METHOD APPARATUSES

N. G. Ivanov and E. M. Smirnov

UDC 532.516:536.25

Calculations of the quasiperiodic and stochastic regimes 
of three-dimensional convection of a silicon melt (Pr = 0.015) have 
been performed for a rotating vessel whose complicated shape is typical 
of crucibles used in growing crystals by the Czochralski method. A 
large set of data on the structure of the convection and the spectral 
composition of pulsations has been obtained. The influence of the 
rotation of a crystal and a crucible on the convection and the thermal 
state of a melt has been investigated.

St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia; 
email:aerofmf@citadel.stu.neva.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-
Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 63-69, May-June, 2002. 
Original article submitted July 11, 2001.

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