Simulation of Nine-Spacer Nozzle’s Flow Field of Al Roll-Casting Using Coupled Fluid-Thermal Finite Element Analysis

Abstract:

A three-dimensional coupled fluid-thermal finite element simulation model has been developed to provide analyzing distribution of velocity and temperature of nine-spacer nozzle by using FEM simulation of FLOTRAN module in ANSYS 6.0. To explore fluid-thermal analysis of the flow fields of nine-spacer nozzle of aluminum roll-casting, stricter analysis of postprocessing result was conducted by MATLAB. It was concluded that flow field of nine-spacer nozzle was able to match cooling capacity of cast rollers, but nine-spacer nozzle’s geometric flaw didn’t suit for working in the case of speed increasing of the drawing-sheet and thickness reducing of the aluminium sheet during roll casting.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 159)
• Pages: 697-702
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.159.697
• Online since: December 2010
• Authors: Ying Zhou, Ya Xi Tan
• Keywords: Coupled Fluid-Thermal Analysis, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Nine-Spacer Nozzle, Roll Cast

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