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Direct-Chill (DC) Casting Application

This repository contains developments for modeling direct-chill (DC) casting by Bruno Lebon at BCAST, Brunel University London using OpenFOAM.

This work includes a solver based on the continuum mixture theory taken from:

W.D. Bennon and F.P. Incropera, "A continuum model for momentum, heat and species transport in binary solid-liquid phase change systems - 1. Model formulation", IJHMT 30 (1987) 2161-2170.

as well as tutorial cases from:

1. C.J. Vreeman, J.D. Schloz and M.J.M. Krane, "Direct Chill Casting of Aluminium Alloys: Modelling and Experiments on Industrial Scale Ingots", Journal of Heat Transfer 124 (2002) 947-953. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1482089
2. B. Lebon, H.T. Li, J.B. Patel, H. Assadi and Z.Fan, "Numerical modelling of melt-conditioned direct-chill casting", Applied Mathematical Modelling 77 (2020) 1310-1330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2019.08.032
3. T. Subroto, B. Lebon, D. Eskin, I. Skalicky, D. Roberts, I. Tzanakis and et al., "Numerical modelling and experimental validation of the effect of ultrasonic melt treatment in a direct-chill cast AA6008 alloy billet", Journal of Materials Research and Technology 12 (2021) 1582-1596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2021.03.061

• DC Casting solver - Updated verions of the DC casting solver
• Vreeman2002 - Tutorial case corresponding to Vreeman et al. (2002).
• Lebon2020 - Tutorial case corresponding to Lebon et al. (2020).
• Subroto2021 - Tutorial case corresponding to Subroto et al. (2021).
• Documentation - Documentation