Dagoberto S. Severo, André F. Schneider
The aluminum industry is studying ways to increase the efficiency of reduction cells in new and retrofit smelters. Numerical simulation has become a very effective tool for analyzing such complex processes. This paper presents magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a cell technology case study. A three-dimensional (3-D) model was developed by coupling commercial codes ANSYS and CFX, via in-house programs and customization subroutines. A detailed electromagnetic model was built in ANSYS, which uses Finite Element Method. Steady state and transient MHD flows in the cell were calculated with CFX, which uses Finite Volume Method. Metal and bath were treated as multiphase flow. The homogeneous VOF (Volume of Fluid) model, available in CFX, was used to calculate bath-metal interface in steady state and transient regimes. The transient simulation of the bath-metal interface was used for the study of cell stability.
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