9th International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Metallurgical Processes in Steelmaking - STEELSIM2021

Continuous casting of steel is an important commercial process that involves many complex, coupled physical phenomena, which have been the subject of significant computational modeling efforts over the past half-century. This paper summarizes the current state of the art in modeling and simulation of these phenomena. This includes models of heat transfer and solidification of the steel shell,...

Throughout the entire steelmaking production process, refractory materials play a key role. The functionalities of these materials are manifold, such as maintaining the integrity of furnace vessels and protecting the steel shells from high temperatures, therefore regulating temperature losses. The materials also guarantee a safe transfer of liquid steel from one operational unit to another...

The design and control of blast furnace (BF) ironmaking must be optimized in order to be competitive and sustainable, particularly under the more and more demanding and tough economic and environmental conditions. To achieve this, it is necessary to understand the complex multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer, and global performance of a BF under different conditions. Mathematical modelling,...

INTECO is a privately owned Austrian engineering and consultancy company founded in 1973 being specialized in metallurgical process technology and the related equipment for melting, refining, casting, atomization and solidification of high-performance steels, superalloys and titanium.
Over the past decades the product portfolio has been consistently grown ranging nowadays from primary...

Additive manufacturing by selective laser fusion of powder appears as a promising process to elaborate high performance parts. Numerical simulation is a valuable tool for understanding laser matter interaction as well as the main physical phenomena governing liquid flow and solidification. It allows determining the influence of the different process parameters, and defining appropriate process...

For the steel industry, modelling is an indispensable tool in process and product development. This will be illustrated by some typical examples from across the production chain, showing model development across several length and time scales. Taking industrial scale CFD and FEM approaches as the starting point, further development is in two directions. The first direction is towards...