Solution

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In the heat-exchanger frame the crystal velocity is , while the liquid velocity is . The steady vertical mass flux is constant and equals in the fully solid eutectic material. Hence
This gives the density-change flow in a pulled mushy layer
The laboratory mixture volume flux is . In the pure liquid , while in the fully solid region and the material moves at . The liquid velocity formula applies wherever liquid exists; at solid fraction one there is no liquid phase to assign a velocity.

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