Metals and Metals Processing
Used extensively in the metals processing industries, ANSYS software is a proven and cost-effective alternative to experimental or empirical methods where design and operating decisions concerning fluid flow are involved.
The detailed information on the behavior of liquids, solid particles and gases, heat transfer and solidification phenomena provided by ANSYS CFX computational fluid dynamics software ensures that the engineer has available the best possible data with which to work.
Applications to improve processes, provide costs savings and increase product quality include:
- establishment of optimal combinations of baffles and weirs in tundishes
- optimizing design of the pouring system in the caster process
- improved casting by studying gas injection in the submerged entry nozzle
- increased product quality through prediction of solidification rate, development of solid shell and contaminant particle inclusion profile
- increasing longevity of blast furnaces through modeling iron flow, heat transfer and refractory wear in the hearth
- optimization of chemical processes in ladles
- heat transfer in pit furnaces and forged products
- combustion modeling of auxiliary injectants in blast furnaces
- modeling of blast furnace stave thermal performance
