Verification of a numerical model of macrosegregation in direct chill casting

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 308-324

  Založnik, Miha ^a,b   Xin, Shihe ^c,d   Šarler, Božidar ^e  

^a IMPOL Aluminium Industry   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Convection; Flow; Modeling; Solidification

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MACROSEGREGATION SIMULATION; NUMERICAL TEST PROBLEMS;

SOLIDIFICATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLIDIFICATION;

EID: 43449120947     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530810853600     Document Type: Article

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