VW Engineering International, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, 1-22
Received: June 23, 2021
Accepted: Aug. 10, 2021
Published online: Aug. 14, 2021
Md Irfanul Haque Siddiqui 1*, Ambrish Maurya 2, Rajneesh Kumar 3
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh11421, Saudi Arabia
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Patna, India
3Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
*Corresponding Authors Email: msiddiqui2.c@ksu.edu.sa
Abstract: This paper presents a critical review of numerical modeling and methods applied in the continuous casting mold. With the recent advancement in metallurgical methods, the continuous casting process now becomes the main method for steel production. To achieve efficient and effective production, the manufacturers of steel keep on searching for new methods which increase productivity. The continuous casting process comprises many complicated phenomena in terms of fluid flow, heat transfer, and structural deformation. The important numerical modeling method of the continuous casting process has been discussed in reference in this work. The present work describes molten steel flow, heat transfer, solidification, electromagnetic applications, formation of the shell by solidification and coupling, etc. Further, the distortion of strand by thermo-mechanical forces, bulging, bending, and crack prediction has been discussed briefly. Numerical simulations have led to the path where greater information can be unleashed to understand the metallurgical process of strand solidification.
Keywords: steelmaking, mold, mathematical modeling, continuous casting, CFD
