Numerical Analysis of Cold Crucible Induction Melting Employing FEM and MPS Method

• Published in: IEEE transactions on magnetics Vol. 49; no. 5; pp. 1921 - 1924
• Main Authors: Matsuzawa, Shuhei, Hirata, Katsuhiro, Yoshimura, Takahiro, Yoshikawa, Gaku, Miyasaka, Fumikazu
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01-05-2013; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Aluminum; Cold crucible; Computational fluid dynamics; coupled method; Cross-disciplinary physics: materials science; rheology; Crucibles; Equations; Exact sciences and technology; Finite element analysis; Finite element method; Heat transfer; Induction melting; Liquid metals; Lorentz covariance; Magnetism; magnetohydrodynamic; Materials science; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical model; Mathematical models; moving particle semi-implicit method; Other topics in materials science; Physics; Three dimensional; Finite element method; Magnetohydrodynamics; Melting; Crucibles; magnetohydrodynamic; Modelling; Cold crucible; coupled method; moving particle semi-implicit method; Magnetic properties
• ISSN: 0018-9464; 1941-0069
• DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2244863

This paper proposes a coupled method of 3-D finite element method (FEM) and moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method for the analysis of cold crucible induction melting. In this method, the magnetic field is calculated by FEM and the fluid motion equation of the molten metal and the thermal distribution in the molten metal are calculated by the MPS method. In this paper, the phase transformation of the metal is not considered. The effectiveness of this method is verified through the analysis of the molten metal behavior in the crucible.