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

Author

Matsuzawa, S. ; Hirata, Kazufumi ; Yoshimura, Tetsuzo ; Yoshikawa, G. ; Miyasaka, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Adaptive Machine Syst., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan

Volume

49

Issue

5

fYear

2013

fDate

May-13

Firstpage

1921

Lastpage

1924

Abstract

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.

Keywords

finite element analysis; liquid metals; magnetic fields; melting; 3D finite element method; FEM method; MPS method; cold crucible induction melting; fluid motion equation; magnetic field; molten metal behavior; moving particle semiimplicit method; numerical analysis; thermal distribution; Cold crucible; coupled method; finite element method; magnetohydrodynamic; moving particle semi-implicit method;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2013.2244863

Filename

6514565