618-3007/01 – Modelling and Vizualization of Metallurgical Processes (MaVMP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Metallurgy and Foundry | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Karel Michalek, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Karel Michalek, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2014/2015 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Acquired knowledge
- student will be able to formulate basic regularities of physical and numerical process modelling,
- student will be able to describe similarity of processes, derivation of similarity criterion and modelling application in metallurgy of steel production, treatment and casting,
- student will be able to characterise importance, methods and utilisation of modelling methods in technical practice,
Acquired skills
-student will be able to use his knowledge for derivation of similarity criteria and for proposal of physical modelling methods not only in metallurgy
-student will be able to use fundamentals of 3D modelling of geometry and numerical modelling in CFD programme FLUENT.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
The subject is focused on general methods of process modelling, as
mathematical methods, so physical methods of modelling. The subject is focused on principle of process algorithm and their visualisation with particular applications directed to the domain of steel making, secondary metallurgy and steel casting.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
http://www.fmmi.vsb.cz/cs/urceno-pro/studenty/podklady-ke-studiu/studijni-opory
Other requirements
preparing two seminar works from the area of metallurgical processes modelling
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject syllabus:
1.Basic terms of process modelling, classification of models according to different criteria. Physical modelling and its importance in various fields of science. System Similarity, the similarity constants.
2.Dimensionless parameters (similarity criteria), the distribution and properties of similarity criteria. A complete physical equations, the basic equations, the criteria equations. Determination of dimensionless parameters using dimensional analysis.
3.Determination of dimensionless parameters using method of similarity transformation of the basic equations. Similarity transformation of the Navier-Stokes equations.
4.Approximate physical modelling. Automodelling. Physical meaning of some similarity criteria, the issue of respecting of the identity of Fr and Re criteria. Determination of volumetric flow scales.
5.The experimental nature of physical modelling. Methods for determination of retention times, the impulse-response method, the RTD curves, flow visualization.
6.The principles of construction of physical models. Basic experimental techniques in physical modelling of flow of liquid metals.
7.Fundamentals of flow reactors - hypothetical models of flow, plug flow, perfect mixing. Real reactor. Theoretical retention time. Curve C, curve F. A combined flow model, mean retention time, short-flow, dead volume. Dispersion flow model.
8.The selection of suitable mathematical models to describe transient metallurgical processes. Empirical - mathematical and physical (adequate) - mathematical approach a solution.
9.Theoretical foundations of the mathematical description of the transient processes. Approaches and methods for solving of approximation and regression. Parametric identification.
10.The method of planned experiment - DOE. Basic terms, objectives, utilization of planned experiment. Develop a plan of the experiment. Calculation of the effects of factors and interactions. Development of the model experiment. Software support of DOE methodology. Practical use of DOE methods.
11.Static and dynamic model of heat management in the oxygen converter. Basic management level, superior management level. The essence of a dynamic model of management, monitoring of the heat, the relevant data to manage the heat, the methods of measurement. The main features of calculating the charge for heat in oxygen converter. Innovation of melting process.
12.Theoretical principles of mathematical modelling of fluid flow phenomena. Flow of real fluids. Laminar and turbulent flow. Navier-Stokes equations and continuity equation.
13.CFD software systems. The procedure of numerical simulation in CFD programme ANSYS FLUENT. Preprocessing - geometry creation and generation of computational mesh, the definition of a physical model, the choice of turbulence model, setting of the operational conditions, determination of material properties and boundary conditions.
14.ANSYS FLUENT: Processing - Solving: the actual implementation of the calculation (stationary, nonstationary), convergence of the solution. Postprocessing - evaluation of results. Examples of using CFD programmes in practice.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction