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The quality of the produced steel in the continuous casting process is significantly governed by the melt flow in the mold. However, direct flow measurements in liquid metals are still rather scarce. In order to investigate these flow phenomena, three experimental facilities operating with low melting liquid metals were installed at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). The melt flow in the models is measured by the Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry (UDV) or the Contactless Inductive How Tomography (CIFT), multi-phase flows can be visualized by X-ray imaging. The obtained measurement results are primarily used for validation of numerical models.
In this paper we will investigate the fluid flow in the mold and the behavior of the surface of the liquid metal using flow measurements by UDV and surface profile measurement by a laser scanner, respectively. Strong fluctuations and deviations of the free surface were observed in case of a static magnetic field.
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Timmel, K. et al. (2016). Liquid Metal Modelling of Flow Phenomena in the Continuous Casting Process of Steel. In: Allanore, A., Bartlett, L., Wang, C., Zhang, L., Lee, J. (eds) EPD Congress 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48111-1_3
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