Electromagnetic Processing of Materials

This book is both a course book and a monograph. In fact, it has developed from notes given to graduate course students on materials processing in the years 1989 to 2006. The Electromagnetic Processing of Materials, so called EPM, locates in one branch in Materials Science and Engineering and was newly born in 80 s as a field aiming to create new materials and/or design reasonable processes by making use of various functions which appear when applying the electric and magnetic fields on materials. Its academic back ground is based on Transport Phenomena, Materials Processing and Magnetohydrodynamics. The first chapter introduces briefly the history, back ground and technology of EPM. In the second chapter, the concept of Transport Phenomena is concisely introduced and in the third chapter the essential part of Magnetohydrodynamics is transcribed and readers are guided to understand that the concept of transport phenomena holds in not only heat, mass and momentum, but also magnetic field. The fourth chapter describes Electromagnetic Processing of electrically conductive materials such as electromagnetic levitation, mixing, brake, and etc., which are caused by the Lorentz force. The fifth chapter treats Magnetic Processing of organic and non-organic materials such as magnetic levitation, crystal orientation, structural alignment and etc., which are induced by the magnetization force. This part is a new academic field named Magneto-Science, which has been focused under the development of super-conducting magnets.§This book is written to be understood by any graduate student in engineering courses and engineers and researchers in industries.