Numerical modeling of influence of gaseous bubble shape factor on steel flow in the tundish with system of argon injection

Numerical modeling of influence of gaseous bubble shape factor on steel flow in the tundish with system of argon injection

Adam Cwudziński, Jan Jowsa

Department of Metals Extraction and Recirculation, Faculty of Materials Processing Technology and Applied Physics,,Czestochowa University of Technology, Armii Krajowej 19, 42-200 Czestochowa, Poland.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7494/cmms.2008.1.0184

Abstract:

The article presents the results of computer simulations of steel flow in a six-strand tundish with subflux controller of turbulence and system of argon injection. The authors employed the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) numerical modeling technique to demonstrate the effect of different variants of gaseous bubble shape (spherical and nonspherical bubbles) on the steel flow in the zone of argon injection and shape of RTD (Residence Time Distribution) curves. The computer simulations were performed for isothermal conditions. As a result of computations, fields of steel flow, fields of turbulence intensity, RTD curves and the percentage shares of particular flow zones (stagnant flow, plug flow, and ideal mixing flow) were obtained.

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Cwudziński, A., Jowsa, J., (2008). Numerical modeling of influence of gaseous bubble shape factor on steel flow in the tundish with system of argon injection. Computer Methods in Materials Science, 8(1), 16 – 24. https://doi.org/10.7494/cmms.2008.1.0184

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Keywords:

Numerical modeling, Tundish, Steel flow, System of argon injection, RTD curves, Bubble shape factor

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