A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed to simulate a 150-t top-blown converter. The ef-fect of different lance heights on the cavity shape was investigated using the volume of flu...A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed to simulate a 150-t top-blown converter. The ef-fect of different lance heights on the cavity shape was investigated using the volume of fluid (VOF) method. Numerical simulation results can reflect the actual molten bath surface waves impinged by the supersonic oxygen jets. With increasing lance height, the cavity depth de-creases, and the cavity area, varying like a parabola, increases and then decreases. The cavity area maximizes at the lance height of 1.3 m. Under the three different lance heights simulated in this study, all of the largest impact velocities at the molten bath surface are between 50 m/s and 100 m/s.展开更多
The water-air and Wood’s metal-air systems are modeled by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics to study the interaction between a liquid surface and an impinging air jet under the near field blowing conditions. The ...The water-air and Wood’s metal-air systems are modeled by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics to study the interaction between a liquid surface and an impinging air jet under the near field blowing conditions. The effect of the air jet velocity, the height of the injection lance, and the density of the liquid on the depth of the formed cavity is numerically studied. The CFD results of the cavity depth are compared with results previously reported by other authors. The emergence of the splashing phenomenon is predicted in terms of the critical velocity for each liquid-air system. Besides, the blowing number indicates that the drop generation rate is not significant for jet velocities below the critical velocity, and therefore neither the splashing is significant.展开更多
文摘A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed to simulate a 150-t top-blown converter. The ef-fect of different lance heights on the cavity shape was investigated using the volume of fluid (VOF) method. Numerical simulation results can reflect the actual molten bath surface waves impinged by the supersonic oxygen jets. With increasing lance height, the cavity depth de-creases, and the cavity area, varying like a parabola, increases and then decreases. The cavity area maximizes at the lance height of 1.3 m. Under the three different lance heights simulated in this study, all of the largest impact velocities at the molten bath surface are between 50 m/s and 100 m/s.
文摘The water-air and Wood’s metal-air systems are modeled by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics to study the interaction between a liquid surface and an impinging air jet under the near field blowing conditions. The effect of the air jet velocity, the height of the injection lance, and the density of the liquid on the depth of the formed cavity is numerically studied. The CFD results of the cavity depth are compared with results previously reported by other authors. The emergence of the splashing phenomenon is predicted in terms of the critical velocity for each liquid-air system. Besides, the blowing number indicates that the drop generation rate is not significant for jet velocities below the critical velocity, and therefore neither the splashing is significant.