Erratum to: Simulation factors of steel continuous casting

Continuous Casting of Steel

Continuous casting is used to solidify most of the 750 million tons of steel produced in the world every year. Like most commercial processes, continuous casting involves many complex interacting phenomena. Most previous advances have been based on empirical knowledge gained from experimentation with the process. To further optimize the design and improve the continuous casting process, mathema...

Numerical Simulation of Slab Broadening in Continuous Casting of Steel

Control issues in continuous casting of steel

Continuous casting plants are highly complex plants whose performance requires reliable mold level control system. Several effects greatly influence the surface quality of the final product and if these are not suppressed sufficiently by the mold level control system, than the production speed, hence the productivity has to be lowered. This paper analyses the most important disturbance and thei...

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 ...

Physical Modeling of Steel Delivery during Thin Slab Continuous Casting

A full scale physical model of a thin slab caster with a four-hole design submerged entry nozzle (SEN) was constructed. On the basis of the dimensionless Reynolds and Froude similitude criteria, the fluid flow in a full-scale model is similar to that of the actual system and, hence, the data obtained from the water model can be applied to the actual system. In order to determine the optimum ope...