简介:Unsteadyfluidflowsandlevelfluctuationsinathinslabcontinuouscastingmouldhavesignificantinfluenceonproductquality.Inthisstudy,thephenomenaconcerningtransientflowfeaturesandfreesurfacemotionswereanalyzedbymeansofthelargeeddysimulation(LES)softwarewiththesmagorinskySGSmodel-VisualCast(VCast)II,wheretheSimpleralgorithmonabody-fittedmeshwasusedtoresolvegoverningequations.Aseriesofwateranalogexperimentsonthefluidflowandthesurfacewaveinthemouldsofthinslabcontinuouscastingwerealsoperformed.Theresultsoffluidregions,middleofvortexandlevelfluctuationfromdigitalsimulationswereidenticalwiththeresultsofthewateranalogexperiments.
简介:Intwin-rollstripcastingprocess,transportphenomenaoffluidinthemoltenpooldirectlyaffecttheprocessstabilityandthequalityofproducts.Inordertoelucidatethefundamentaltransportphenomenaintwin-rollcasting,acommercialsoftwarecalledProCASTwasemployedtosimulatethetransientfluidflowandlevelprofilebehaviorsduringtheearlystageoftheprocessinthisstudy.Thecoupledsetofgoverningdifferentialequationsformass,momentumandenergybalanceweresolvedwiththefiniteelementmethodandthetransientfreesurfaceproblemwastreatedwithavolumeoffluids(VOF)approach.Theeffectofdifferentdeliverysystemsconfigurationonflowpattern,levelprofileinthepoolwasstudiedandanalyzedinthispaper.Thenewwedgemetaldeliverysystemshavebeenoptimizedforthetwin-rollstripcaster.Itwasshownthatnewtypemetaldeliverysystemshadapreferableeffectontheuniformdistributionoffluidandlevelfluctuationinthepool.Thesimulationresultsalsoprovideavaluablebasisfortheoptimizationofdeliverysystemandprocessparametersduringtheinitialpouringstage.