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Water Modeling of the Fluid Flow Instability in Continuous Thin Slab Casting Mould
Author(s) -
Shen Houfa,
Shen Bingzhen,
Liu Baicheng
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
steel research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.603
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 1611-3683
DOI - 10.1002/srin.200706244
Subject(s) - instability , slab , materials science , continuous casting , flow (mathematics) , fluid dynamics , mechanics , casting , water model , composite material , engineering , structural engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , molecular dynamics
Flow instability in continuous thin slab casting moulds has been studied using a full scale water model with particle image visualization. The results show that jet impinging depth, circumfluence centre position and wave height are unsteady and periodical. The probabilities of jet impinging depth and circumfluence centre position seem to be Poisson distributions with the highest frequency near the average position. The flow pattern is asymmetrical for a short time and the phase difference of jet impinging depth, circumfluence centre position and wave height on the two sides of the mould centreline is half a period. The average jet impinging depth, average circumfluence centre position, average meniscus wave profile and the highest and lowest meniscus positions are generally symmetrical to the mould centreline.