Optimisation of ingot casting wheel design using SPH simulations

DOI10.1504/PCFD.2007.013002MaRDI QIDQ2641635zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 22 August 2007

Published in Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1504/PCFD.2007.013002

zbMATH Keywords

aluminium ingot castingcasting wheel designCFDcomputational fluid dynamicsdesign optimisationoptimisationoxide formationoxide reductionsimulationsmoothed particle hydrodynamicsSPH modelling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28)

Review text

Summary: Performance improvements of a new filling system for aluminium ingot casting resulting from a combination of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) modelling and pilot scale testing are reported in this paper. The SPH modelling was used as the primary design tool, passing through several design iterations to understand the flow fundamentals and to progressively improve performance. The best concept from the simulation design stage was then refined through a detailed programme of pilot scale testing and a final round of SPH simulation. The results of this development programme will be described, with the new wheel design now able to operate at 50\% higher throughput with an expected reduction in the oxide content by about 53\% compared to that of the original design.

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