Metallurgical Process Simulation and Optimization

2023

Metallurgy involves the art and science of extracting metals from their ores and modifying the metals for use. With thousands of years of development, many interdisciplinary technologies have been introduced into this traditional and large-scale industry. In modern metallurgical practices, modelling and simulation are widely used to provide solutions in the areas of design, control, optimization, and visualization, and are becoming increasingly significant in the progress of digital transformation and intelligent metallurgy. This Special Issue (SI), entitled “Metallurgical Process Simulation and Optimization”, has been organized as a platform to present the recent advances in the field of modelling and optimization of metallurgical processes, which covers the processes of electric/oxygen steel-making, secondary metallurgy, (continuous) casting, and processing. Eighteen articles have been included that concern various aspects of the topic.

eBook

English

Basel: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2023.

Al–Ag alloys, Ag clusters, positron annihilation, monovacancies, shallow trapping, continuous casting, electromagnetic stirring, flow behavior, uniform index of solidified shell, digital image correlation, mechanical properties, stainless steel, temperature, thermovision, uniaxial tensile test, cryogenic vessel steels, cerium, microstructure, inclusions, electric arc furnace, energy efficiency modelling, process optimization, mass and energy balances, blast furnace, hydrogen injection, gas utilisation efficiency, energy consumption, CO2 emission, EDA—exploratory data analysis, rare Earth metal oxides, wear resistance, heatmap, correlation, electro-gas welding, high heat input, heat source movement path, finite element analysis, thermal evolution, fluid-particle flow, submerged entry nozzle, lattice Boltzmann method, large eddy simulation, vortex structures, crystallization ratio, flux film, heat transfer, longitudinal crack, peritectic steels, high carbon steel, cracking con-rod, C70S6, tundish, flow field, water modelling, mathematical simulation, temperature field, bloom quality consistency, PFR lime kiln, lime calcination, BFG, numerical simulation, PMM, SCM, high-temperature confocal microscope, phase-field simulation, duplex stainless steel, cooling rate, near-α titanium alloy, TiH2-based powder metallurgy, hot compression, strain hardening exponents, strain rate sensitivity, processing map, alumina inclusion, interfacial tension, steelmaking, continuous casting mold, surfactant, sulfur, simulation, dry vibrating material, collapsed ladle, mathematical modeling, stress field, strain field, molecular dynamics simulation, CaF2, melts’ structure, transport properties, viscosity, inclusion, ZrO2, nucleation mechanism, first principles, Technology: general issues, History of engineering and technology