Affiliations: [a] Transvalor S.A., Parc de Haute Technologie - Sophia Antipolis, France | [b] MINES ParisTech, Center for Materials Forming, Sophia Antipolis, France
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Corresponding author: L. Marioni, Transvalor S.A., Parc de Haute Technologie - Sophia Antipolis, 06255 Mougins cedex, France. E-mail:[email protected]
Abstract: Electromagnetic stirring (EMS) is widely used to increase
the efficiency in continuous casting process of steel. In particular,
in-mould applications (M-EMS) allow decreasing the free surface fluctuation,
controlling the velocity field and decreasing the turbulence of the flow.
Since laboratory-scale tests are not fully representative of the process and
industrial measurements are both expensive and difficult to carry out,
numerical simulation is a strong tool to study and optimize these
electromagnetic applications in steel industry. These simulations cannot
fully model the process of its multiphysical nature and the simulation of
all the phenomena involved would lead to huge computational costs, which is
one of the main limits in the current situation. For this reason, this work
aims at starting searching a coupling algorithm which could guarantee both
computational efficiency and accuracy of the final results.
Keywords: Continuous casting, electromagnetic stirring, mesh adaptation, finite elements
