A review of physical and numerical approaches for the study of gas stirring in ladle metallurgy

Y Liu, M Ersson, H Liu, PG Jönsson, Y Gan - Metallurgical and materials …, 2019 - Springer
This article presents a review of the research into gas stirring in ladle metallurgy carried out
over the past few decades. Herein, the physical modeling experiments are divided into four …

Mathematical simulation of impact cavity and gas–liquid two-phase flow in top–bottom blown converter with Eulerian-multifluid VOF model

J Zhang, W Lou, P Shao, M Zhu - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions …, 2022 - Springer
In top–bottom combined blown converter-steelmaking process, cavity shape created by
oxygen jet of top lance impacting liquid metal surface and gas–liquid flow caused by bottom …

Mathematical modeling on the growth and removal of non-metallic inclusions in the molten steel in a two-strand continuous casting tundish

H Ling, L Zhang, H Li - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2016 - Springer
In the current study, mathematical models were developed to predict the transient
concentration and size distribution of inclusions in a two-strand continuous casting tundish …

Investigation on the effect of nozzle number on the recirculation rate and mixing time in the RH process using VOF+ DPM model

H Ling, F Li, L Zhang, AN Conejo - Metallurgical and Materials …, 2016 - Springer
A mathematical model has been developed to explain the effect of the number of nozzles on
recirculation flow rate in the RH process. Experimental data from water modeling were …

Modeling of gas-steel-slag three-phase flow in ladle metallurgy: Part II. Multi-scale mathematical model

L Li, B Li, Z Liu - Isij International, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Gas stirring ladle is a complex three-phase reactor which contains phases whose interfaces
are in different scales. The bubble-liquid interaction also leads to multi-scale eddy …

Large bubble-resolved direct numerical simulation for multiphase flow applied to gas-stirred ladles: Grid resolution and plug eccentricity effects

Q Li, PC Pistorius - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2023 - Springer
There is a need for bubble-scale modeling of bubbly multiphase turbulent flow in gas-stirred
reactors, with a direct resolution of bubble formation, bubble shape, bubble deformation …

Multiphase modeling of bottom-stirred ladle for prediction of slag–steel interface and estimation of desulfurization behavior

U Singh, R Anapagaddi, S Mangal… - … Materials Transactions B, 2016 - Springer
Ladle furnace is a key unit in which various phenomena such as deoxidation,
desulfurization, inclusion removal, and homogenization of alloy composition and …

A discrete population balance equation for binary breakage

Y Liao, R Oertel, S Kriebitzsch… - … Journal for Numerical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The numerical solution of the population balance equation is frequently achieved by means
of discretization, ie, by the method of classes. An important concern of discrete formulations …

Interface-resolved simulation of bubbles–metal–slag multiphase system in a gas-stirred ladle

Q Li, PC Pistorius - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2021 - Springer
A grid-filtered scale interface-resolved volume of fluid (VoF) model coupling a sub-grid scale
large eddy simulation (LES) was used to directly simulate bubble behavior and the evolution …

A boundary layer model for capture of inclusions by steel–slag interface in a turbulent flow

Y Sun, H Duan, L Zhang - Journal of Iron and Steel Research International, 2023 - Springer
A boundary layer model was developed to predict the capture of inclusions by steel–slag
interface in a turbulent fluid flow, which is based on the detailed analysis of inclusion …