Model study of tundish steel intermixing and operational verification

Abstract

The aim of this paper will be to present new knowledge and experience from numerical and physical modelling of metallurgical processes at the Department of Metallurgy, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava in Czech Republic and to explain especially the principle of tundish process simulations. The numerical modelling was realized by the CFD program FLUENT. The paper describes the pre-processing, processing and post-processing phases of numerical modelling. The physical modelling of the steel flow verification is based on a monitoring of the time dependency of concentration changes during experiments for individual tundish outlets. There exist two basic methods of KCl concentration change utilization in this "water" physical tundish modelling methodology. The utilization of mentioned methods are discussed and possible future developments are outlined for research of tundish steel intermixing.