START-Cuve: Thermo-electro-mechanical transient simulation applied to electrical preheating of a Hall-Héroult cell

TMS Light Metals

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 247-254

  Désilets, Martin ^a   Marceau, Daniel ^b   Fafard, Mario ^c  

^a ALCAN INTERNATIONAL LIMITED   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL PREHEATING; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION;

CATHODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEATING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REDUCTION;

THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT;

EID: 17644434723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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