The dendrite evolution and micro-segregation based on mechanism of solute diffusion controlling interfacial growth is simulated by cellular automaton.The simulated results show that using the method can not only reveal dendrite morphology and micro-segregation but also represent the recalescence phenomenon.It is found that although the simulated dendrite tip radius is well in agreement with the theoretical radius
there are some fluctuations.Through analyzing the simulated results
it is the rules of cellular automaton discreting the continuous process of dendrite into a discrete growth process
resulting in the appearing wave in simulated results.