NUMERICAL MODELING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC CASTING PROCESSES

The main goal of this paper is to present a numerical model describing the major physical phenomena involved in electromagnetic casting industrial processes as precisely as possible. Under suitable physical assumptions, we derive the set of equations in the two-dimensional case; we describe in detail the numerical methods used to solve such equations and derive an iterative algorithm. Numerical results describing the case of an aluminium ingot are presented in order to show the efficiency of the method. © 1991.