This paper considers two novel free boundary problems that emerge from modelling processes basic to steel manufacture. The first process concerns the spray cooling of hot steel sheet during the process of continuous c...This paper considers two novel free boundary problems that emerge from modelling processes basic to steel manufacture. The first process concerns the spray cooling of hot steel sheet during the process of continuous casting. Here, an important practical consideration is the non-monotonicity of the measured heat transfer from the steel as a function of the steel temperature. In order to understand this phenomenon, a two-phase flow model is written down for the heating and vapourisation of the water spray. This model relies on a microscale analysis of droplet vapourisation and, in a steady state, it reduces to a coupled system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations for the spray temperature and water content. This system predicts the conditions for the existence or otherwise of a free boundary separating the two-phase region from a dry vapour layer close to the steel plate.The thickness of this vapour layer is determined by the solution of a generalised Stefan problem. The second process concerns the macroscopic modelling of pig .iron production in blast furnaces. In the simplest scenario, the blast furnace may be roughly divided into a porous solid region overlaying a hot high pressure gaseous zone. The gas reacts with the solid in a thin "intermediate region" at the base of the solid region and it is in this intermediate region that the pig iron is produced. A free boundary model is proposed for the location of the intermediate region and its stability is investigated.展开更多
Magnetohydrodynamics couples the Navier-Stokes and Maxwell’s equations to describe the flow of electrically conducting fluids in magnetic fields.Maxwell’s equations require the divergence of the magnetic field to va...Magnetohydrodynamics couples the Navier-Stokes and Maxwell’s equations to describe the flow of electrically conducting fluids in magnetic fields.Maxwell’s equations require the divergence of the magnetic field to vanish,but this condition is typically not preserved exactly by numerical algorithms.Solutions can develop artifacts because structural properties of the magnetohydrodynamic equations then fail to hold.Magnetohydrodynamics with hyperbolic divergence cleaning permits a nonzero divergence that evolves under a telegraph equation,designed to both damp the divergence,and propagate it away from any sources,such as poorly resolved regions with large spatial gradients,without significantly increasing the computational cost.We show that existing lattice Boltzmann algorithms for magnetohydrodynamics already incorporate hyperbolic divergence cleaning,though they typically use parameter values for which it reduces to parabolic divergence cleaning under a slowly-varying approximation.We recover hyperbolic divergence cleaning by adjusting the relaxation rate for the trace of the tensor that represents the electric field,and absorb the contribution from the symmetric-traceless part of this tensor using a change of variables.Numerical experiments confirm that the qualitative behaviour changes from parabolic to hyperbolic when the relaxation time for the trace of the electric field tensor is increased.展开更多
Semi-linear n x n systems of the form Aδu/δ＋Bδ/δy=f can generally be solved, at least locally, provided data are imposed on non-characteristic curves. There are at most n characteristic curves and they are determ...Semi-linear n x n systems of the form Aδu/δ＋Bδ/δy=f can generally be solved, at least locally, provided data are imposed on non-characteristic curves. There are at most n characteristic curves and they are determined by the coefficient matrices on the left-hand sides of the equations. We consider cases where such problems become degenerate as a result of ambiguity associated with the definition of characteristic curves. In such cases, the existence of solutions requires restrictions on the data and solutions might not be unique.展开更多
文摘This paper considers two novel free boundary problems that emerge from modelling processes basic to steel manufacture. The first process concerns the spray cooling of hot steel sheet during the process of continuous casting. Here, an important practical consideration is the non-monotonicity of the measured heat transfer from the steel as a function of the steel temperature. In order to understand this phenomenon, a two-phase flow model is written down for the heating and vapourisation of the water spray. This model relies on a microscale analysis of droplet vapourisation and, in a steady state, it reduces to a coupled system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations for the spray temperature and water content. This system predicts the conditions for the existence or otherwise of a free boundary separating the two-phase region from a dry vapour layer close to the steel plate.The thickness of this vapour layer is determined by the solution of a generalised Stefan problem. The second process concerns the macroscopic modelling of pig .iron production in blast furnaces. In the simplest scenario, the blast furnace may be roughly divided into a porous solid region overlaying a hot high pressure gaseous zone. The gas reacts with the solid in a thin "intermediate region" at the base of the solid region and it is in this intermediate region that the pig iron is produced. A free boundary model is proposed for the location of the intermediate region and its stability is investigated.
文摘Magnetohydrodynamics couples the Navier-Stokes and Maxwell’s equations to describe the flow of electrically conducting fluids in magnetic fields.Maxwell’s equations require the divergence of the magnetic field to vanish,but this condition is typically not preserved exactly by numerical algorithms.Solutions can develop artifacts because structural properties of the magnetohydrodynamic equations then fail to hold.Magnetohydrodynamics with hyperbolic divergence cleaning permits a nonzero divergence that evolves under a telegraph equation,designed to both damp the divergence,and propagate it away from any sources,such as poorly resolved regions with large spatial gradients,without significantly increasing the computational cost.We show that existing lattice Boltzmann algorithms for magnetohydrodynamics already incorporate hyperbolic divergence cleaning,though they typically use parameter values for which it reduces to parabolic divergence cleaning under a slowly-varying approximation.We recover hyperbolic divergence cleaning by adjusting the relaxation rate for the trace of the tensor that represents the electric field,and absorb the contribution from the symmetric-traceless part of this tensor using a change of variables.Numerical experiments confirm that the qualitative behaviour changes from parabolic to hyperbolic when the relaxation time for the trace of the electric field tensor is increased.
文摘Semi-linear n x n systems of the form Aδu/δ＋Bδ/δy=f can generally be solved, at least locally, provided data are imposed on non-characteristic curves. There are at most n characteristic curves and they are determined by the coefficient matrices on the left-hand sides of the equations. We consider cases where such problems become degenerate as a result of ambiguity associated with the definition of characteristic curves. In such cases, the existence of solutions requires restrictions on the data and solutions might not be unique.
