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The Calculation of Transport Phenomena in Electromagnetically Levitated Metal Droplets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

N. El-Kaddah  and
J. Szekely
N. El-Kaddah
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA
J. Szekely
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA
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Abstract

A mathematical representation has been developed for the electromagnetic force field, the fluid flow field, the temperature field (and for transport controlled kinetics) in a levitation melted metal droplet. The technique of mutual inductances was employed for the calculation of the electromagnetic force field, while the turbulent Navier-Stokes equations and the turbulent convective transport equations were used to represent the fluid flow field, the temperature field and the concentration field. The governing differential equations, written in spherical coordinates, were solved numerically.

The computed results were found to be in good agreement with measurements reported in the literature, regarding the lifting force and the average temperature of the specimen.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 9 , 1981 , 191
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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