MT669

PROCESS MODELING

Pre-requisite: Exposure to process metallurgy

  

Mathematical modeling, physical simulation, advantages and limitations; process control, instrumentation and data acquisition systems

  

Review of transport phenomena, differential equations & numerical methods; concept of physical domain and computational domain, assumptions and limitations in numerical solutions, introduction to FEM & FDM, examples

  

Introduction to software packages– useful websites and generic information about different products - ANSYS, Thermocalc, CFD; usage of expert systems, artificial intelligence and robotics; demonstration of some software packages

  

Physical modeling – cold and hot models; case studies of water models, use of computers for the construction of phase diagrams, alloy design, crystallography, phase transformations and thermo chemical calculations.

  

Case studies from literature – pertaining to modeling of solidification / heat transfer, fluid flow, casting, welding and liquid metal treatment

TEXTBOOKS: 

1.       Szekely J., Themelis N. J., ‘Rate Phenomena in Process Metallurgy’, Wiley, 1971.

2.       Ghosh Dastiday P.S., “Computer Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer”, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1998.