Publication detail

Numerical Off-line Model of Temperature Field of a Continuously Cast Billet and its Preparation

ŠTĚTINA, J. KAVIČKA, F. KATOLICKÝ, J. MAUDER, T. KLIMEŠ, L.

Original Title

Numerical Off-line Model of Temperature Field of a Continuously Cast Billet and its Preparation

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper is concerned with fundamental analytical and empirical knowledge about the solidification of continuously cast steel billets having a square cross-section. Solidification and cooling of this billet and the heating of the mould is a very complicated problem of transient heat and mass transfer. The solving of such a problem is impossible without a numerical model of the temperature field, not only of the continuous casting itself, while it is being processed through the caster but of the mould as well. An original 3-D numerical off-line model of the temperature field of a billet has been developed and it is presented there. The model is based on an explicit finite difference method and it solves the Fourier-Kirchhoff partial differential equation. The latent heat of phase changes is incorporated into the model by means of the enthalpy method. The pre-processing mainly includes a complicated definition of boundary conditions, especially in the secondary cooling zone, and the determination of thermo-physical steel properties as functions of the temperature. The dependence of input data (thermo-physical properties and boundary conditions) on the temperature in a particular location on the billet makes the problem highly non-linear.

Keywords

continuously cast billet; temperature field; discretization; initial and boundary conditions; thermo-physical properties; experimental measurement; simulation; numerical model; off-line and on-line version

Authors

ŠTĚTINA, J.; KAVIČKA, F.; KATOLICKÝ, J.; MAUDER, T.; KLIMEŠ, L.

Released

1. 5. 2017

Publisher

OCELOT s.r.o.

Location

Ostrava - Vítkovice

ISBN

0018-8069

Periodical

Hutnické listy

Year of study

70

Number

3

State

Czech Republic

Pages from

4

Pages to

17

Pages count

14

URL

http://www.hutnickelisty.cz

BibTex

@article{BUT137927,
  author="Josef {Štětina} and František {Kavička} and Jaroslav {Katolický} and Tomáš {Mauder} and Lubomír {Klimeš}",
  title="Numerical Off-line Model of Temperature Field of a Continuously Cast Billet and its Preparation",
  journal="Hutnické listy",
  year="2017",
  volume="70",
  number="3",
  pages="4--17",
  issn="0018-8069",
  url="http://www.hutnickelisty.cz"
}