Computer Simulation of the Multiphase Flow in a Peirce-Smith Copper Converter

• 作者: Dulce Y. Medina Isaias Hilerio Miguel A. Barron Oscar Barrios
• 来源期刊: 应用科学(英文)
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: Computational Fluid Dynamics Copper CONVERTER MULTIPHASE Flow NOZZLE HEIGHT Peirce-Smith CONVERTER
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（7）
• 页码范围: 296-303
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: O1

摘要

The multiphase flow in a Peirce-Smith copper converter is numerically explored in this work. Molten matte, molten slag and air are the phases considered. The transient partial differential equations that constitute the mathematical model are discretized using a two-dimensional computational mesh. The Computational Fluid Dynamics technique is employed to numerically solve the discretized equations. The aim of the numerical analysis is to study the influence of the nozzle height on the phase distributions inside the converter. Three values of the nozzle heights are considered.