Review: The "butterfly effect" in continuous casting

Ironmaking and Steelmaking

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 244-253

  Lee, Peter D ^a   Ramirez Lopez, P E ^b   Mills, K C ^c   Santillana, B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MEFOS   (Sweden)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SWINDEN TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Continuous casting; Fluid flow; Modelling; Oscillation marks; Solidification

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY EFFECTS; CASTING PARAMETERS; CASTING SPEED; LOCAL FLUCTUATIONS; METAL FLOW; METAL LEVELS; MODELLING; MOULD LEVELS; MOULD OSCILLATIONS; OSCILLATION MARK; PERIODIC FLUCTUATIONS; POURING TEMPERATURES; POWDER BED; POWDER FEEDING; PROCESS STABILITY; STANDING WAVE; SUBMERGED ENTRY NOZZLES;

CONTINUOUS CASTING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLDS; NOZZLE DESIGN; SOLIDIFICATION;

POWDER METALS;

EID: 84860161720     PISSN: 03019233     EISSN: 17432812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/0301923312Z.00000000062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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