Numerical simulation and experimental study of multi-field coupling for semi-continuous casting of large-scale aluminum ingots with ultrasonic treatment
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摘要: 建立了超聲場下直徑630 mm的鋁合金大鑄錠熱頂半連鑄過程中多場耦合的數學模型,采用有限體積法及自定義函數獲得超聲作用下結晶器內聲場、流場和溫度場的分布,并進行工業化實驗研究.綜合工業實驗和仿真結果分析超聲對熱頂半連鑄鋁合金大鑄錠細晶的機理.模擬結果表明,超聲波對宏觀物理場的影響非常明顯,施加超聲后,輻射桿端面下方形成向上的回流區,強烈的紊流促進鋁熔體的傳質傳熱,減小液穴深度,使液穴更加平緩,同時初始凝殼點下移,過渡帶變窄,鑄錠中心處過渡帶寬度從342 mm減小到120 mm左右.分析實驗結果發現,經超聲處理,鑄錠組織普遍變得細小、均勻,平均晶粒尺寸減小103μm,最大最小晶粒尺寸差從135μm減小到64μm,且凝固組織晶界變細.Abstract: A multi-field coupling mathematical model was established to analyze the hot-top semi-continuous casting of a large-scale aluminum alloy of 630 mm in diameter with ultrasonic treatment (UST). The finite volume method combined with the self-com-piled function was used to get the distribution of the acoustic field, flow field and temperature field, and the industrial experimental re-search was also performed. The mechanism of ultrasonic treatment on the grain refinement of the large-scale aluminum alloy produced by hot-top semi-continuous casting was analyzed based on the simulation and experiment results. The simulation results show that ultra-sonic markedly influences the macroscopic physic field. With ultrasonic treatment, an upward recirculation zone forms beneath the end face of the radiation rod, the heat and mass transfer is promoted by the strong turbulence, the sump gets shallower and gentler, the ini-tial solidifying point on the ingot surface in the mold moves down, the transition zone becomes narrower, the width of it in the center drops from 342 mm to nearly 120 mm. The experimental results show that with ultrasonic treatment, the grain size becomes smaller and more homogeneous, the average grain size reduces by 103μm, the gap between the maximum and minimum grain size decreases from 135 to 64μm, and the grain boundary of the solidification structure becomes thinner.
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Key words:
- aluminum alloys /
- ultrasonic /
- casting /
- coupling /
- numerical simulation
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