Three-dimensional finite-volume-based numerical models of fluid, heat, and mass transport have been developed and applied to help explain the complex inter-related phenomena of multiphase fluid flow, superheat dissipation, and grade intermixing during the continuous casting of steel slabs. Gas bubbles are simulated using a continuum model, which calculates the volume fraction and velocities of ...

Tool steel for hot working is usually used the rolls of conventional twin-roll casters aluminum alloys. In a vertical high-speed caster, copper are to rapidly solidify alloys and increase casting speed, since thermal conductivity higher than that tool steel. However, degree superiority over not clear. present study, effect roll material on strip solidification between caster was investigated by...

Discrete scheduling is preferred over continuous scheduling for preemptive scheduling problems, however, classical continuous schedulability tests can not work effectively with discrete scheduling. This area of integrating discrete scheduling with continuous schedulability tests remains unexplored. Two contributions are made in this paper; firstly, an empty-slot method is introduced and extende...

Transient flow during nominally steady conditions is responsible for many intermittent defects during the continuous casting of steel. The double-ruler electromagnetic field configuration, or ‘‘FC-Mold EMBr,’’ is popular in commercial slab casting as it provides independent control of the applied static field near the jet and free surface regions of the mold. In the current study, transient flo...

Particle motion and capture in continuous steel casters were simulated using a Lagrangian trajectory-tracking approach, based on time-dependent flow fields obtained from large eddy simulations (Part I). A computation was first conducted on a water model of a full-scale standard slab caster, where measurements were available. It simulated the transport of 15,000 plastic particles, and their remo...