Magnetic Damping of Liquid Steel Flows in Horizontal Single Belt Casting (HSBC)
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M. Mahdi Aboutalebi
Abstract
A preliminary computational fluid flow model has been developed to simulate the magnetic braking of liquid steel on a water-cooled, rapidly moving, horizontal belt. The liquid steel issuing from the proposed vertical slot-nozzle should ideally move isokinetically with the belt during freezing. In this study, ANSYS Fluent 14.5 software was used to model the 3-D turbulent flow of liquid steel. A 288 core High Performance Computer cluster located at the McGill Metals Processing Centre was used for high-speed computation. The standard k–ε model was used to simulate the turbulence. Similarly, the magnetic induction method was used to calculate the induced heterogeneous magnetic field, from which the current density and electromagnetic forces produced were computed. The behavior of the proposed magnetic flow control was first validated against previous experimental work and was then applied to predict the performance of the proposed slot nozzle. The predicted results show that by applying a DC Magnetic brake to the proposed metal delivery system, near isokinetic conditions can be rapidly established.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the support of ANSYS, and the member companies of the McGill Metals Processing Centre, in carrying out this research work.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Experimental and Stochastic Modeling of the Globular Microstructure and the Microsegregation Evolution during the Solidification of Magnesium Alloys Cast at Low Superheat via Containerless Melting
- On the Influences of Adjacent Conducting Media and Coil Frequency on the Electromagnetic Field and Flow Characteristics in Solidifying Melts
- Nucleation of Carbon Monoxide Gas Bubbles in Electromagnetically Levitated Molten Iron Drops
- Numerical Analysis of Electromagnetic Levitation Employing Meshless Method Based on Weighted Least Square Method
- Arrays of Rotating Permanent Magnet Dipoles for Stirring and Pumping of Liquid Metals
- Flow Visualization by Means of Contactless Inductive Flow Tomography in the Presence of a Magnetic Brake
- CFD of the MHD Mold Flow by Means of Hybrid LES/RANS Turbulence Modeling
- The Application of MHD Side Stirring Technology to Aluminium Melting Furnaces for Operational Efficiency Improvement – A Case Study
- Impact of Coil Geometry on Magnetohydrodynamic Flow in Liquid Aluminium and Its Relevance to Inclusion Separation by Electromagnetophoresis
- Mathematical Modeling of the Mold Current and Its Influence on Slag and Ingot Behavior during ESR
- Online Electromagnetic Filtration of Molten Aluminum Using a Multistage Separator System
- Effect of Single-Ruler Electromagnetic Braking (EMBr) Location on Transient Flow in Continuous Casting
- Optimization of an Electromagnetic Technology in ArcelorMittal Gent for Improving Products Quality in Steel Industry
- Control of Slag-Dragging Effects at the Metal–Slag Interface through Electromagnetic Brake in a Slab Mold
- Recent LIMMCAST Results on the Modeling of Steel Casting
- Magnetic Damping of Liquid Steel Flows in Horizontal Single Belt Casting (HSBC)
- A New Electromagnetic Heating Method to Study Spray Cooling
