Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4604–4607 (2001)Alternating Tip Splitting in Directional SolidificationReceived 7 January 2001; published in the issue dated 14 May 2001 We report experimental results on the tip splitting dynamics of seaweed growth in directional solidification of succinonitrile alloys. Despite the random appearance of the growth, a tip splitting morphology was observed in which the tip alternately splits to the left and to the right. The tip splitting frequency f was found to be related to the growth velocity V as a power law f∝V1.5. This finding is consistent with the predictions of a tip splitting model that is also presented. Small anisotropies are shown to lead to different kinds of seaweed morphologies. © 2001 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4604
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4604
PACS:
68.70.+w, 81.30.Fb
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