FINITE-ELEMENT SIMULATION OF SOLIDIFICATION

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作者
WING, CY
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[1] School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological Institute, Nanyang Avenue
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10.1016/0924-0136(90)90149-O
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
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The problem of predicting the solidification front and the temperature field for the case of the continuous-casting process is of great practical importance. Due to the release of latent heat during the change of phase, such a problem is non-linear and considerably more difficult to solve than the corresponding single-phase problem. The present work introduces a numerical algorithm which is used in the development of a non-linear transient thermal analysis finite-element program, based on the goal of simulating the foundry casting process, with the inherent phenomena of solidification and phase changes. The continuous-casting problem was investigated experimentally in 1953 by Brandt et al., who used thermocouples in the mould and mould cavity. Their experimentally measured isochronal solidification profiles for low-carbon steel cast into simple "L"-shaped sand moulds are matched in the present work by calculations from a finite-element program, with appropriate physical assumptions. The computations from the heat-transfer model agree with the experimental results with respect to the shape of the isochronal solidification profiles, the time of solidification, the thermal gradients and the temperature profiles. © 1990.
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页数:13
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