Applications of Numerical Simulation to Continuous Casting Technology

Numerical Simulation of Slab Broadening in Continuous Casting of Steel

Thermal Simulation of Solidification Process in Continuous Casting

In this study, a mathematical model is introduced to simulate the coupled heat transfer equation and Stefan condition occurring in moving boundary problems such as the solidification process in the continuous casting machines. In the continuous casting process, there exists a two-phase Stefan problem with moving boundary. The control-volume finite difference approach together with the boundary ...

Numerical Simulation of the Investment Casting Process

Determining alloy shrinkage factors is very important for the investment casting process. Casting dimensions can be obtained from numerical simulations of heat transfer and deformation phenomena. The accuracy of the dimensional results depends on heat transfer results. In order to validate heat transfer models, temperature data were obtained during casting of aluminum alloy A356 in shell molds ...

Application of Open System Technology to the Continuous Casting Plant

In the renewal of old process computer system of the continuous casting plant, Nippon Steel Corporation has attained cost reduction by the introduction of general-purpose PC server and OS, and middleware (NS SEMI SYSTEM) originally developed in the activity of open system solution. Also the adopting general purpose RDB to the continuous casting plant has been realized in the first time. The red...

Using Finite Point Method for the Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer Coupled with Microsegregation during Continuous Casting

In the present work, a meshless method called Finite Point Method (FPM) is developed to simulate the solidification process of a continuously cast steel bloom in both primary and secondary cooling regions. The method is based on the use of a weighted least-square interpolation procedure. A transverse slice of the bloom moving at casting speed is considered as the computational domain and two di...