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Heat transfer from electrolyte and liquid metal to the side wall freeze was studied by measuring frozen bath shape and temperature distribution in a cathode pot. Heat flux entering freeze from liquid metal, in spite of its larger thermal conductivity, was fairly small in comparison with the reasonable value of the heat flux in the electrolyte zone. It suggests that the heat transfer mechanism at freeze surface may be different in these two melts. The shape of freeze was simulated by computer for several cases in solving the differential equation for heat balance considering the freeze surface as a moving boundary.
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Arita, Y., Urata, N., Ikeuchi, H. (2016). Estimation of Frozen Bath Shape in an Aluminum Reduction Cell by Computer Simulation. In: Bearne, G., Dupuis, M., Tarcy, G. (eds) Essential Readings in Light Metals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48156-2_40
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