| Download | - View accepted manuscript: Fluid modeling of the flow and free surface parameters in the Metaullics LOTUSS system (PDF, 430 KiB)
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| Author | Search for: Bright, Mark; Search for: Ilinca, Florin1; Search for: Hétu, Jean-Francois1; Search for: Ajersch, Frank; Search for: Saliba, Charbel; Search for: Vild, Chris |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Industrial Materials Institute
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | TMS 2009, 138th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, February 15-19, 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Physical description | 6 p. |
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| Subject | aluminum scrap recovery; fluid modeling; free surface flow; LOw TUrbulence Scrap Submergence (LOTUSS); computational fluid dynamics (CFD) |
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| Abstract | The growth of aluminum product consumption has placed an emphasis on improving the efficiency of processing internally generated scrap. In the Metaullics LOTUSS System (LOw TUrbulence Scrap Submergence), aluminum machining chips can be melted at a rate in excess of 15 tons per hour with very high recovery efficiencies. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model has been implemented to optimize the LOTUSS System to further enhance efficiency and maximize melting performance. Preliminary studies of the CFD modeling will be presented outlining the three-dimensional numerical algorithm for solving the turbulent and free-surface flow inside the LOTUSS system. CFD simulations were carried out for melting system conditions and verified against previous experimental studies. The results indicate that the free surface CFD model is an accurate representation of real-world conditions and the predictions for the position and size of the vortex cone compare very well with the measured experimental values. |
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| Publication date | 2009-02 |
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| Publisher | [The conference] |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NRC number | NRCC 51055 |
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| NPARC number | 11213128 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | 5687463a-3a49-4945-975e-55d7159e2059 |
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| Record created | 2009-10-03 |
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| Record modified | 2020-08-12 |
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