MT453

Process Modelling and Applications

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

 

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

 

Introduction to software packages – useful websites and generic information about different products - ANSYS, Thermocalc, CFD; introduction to expert systems and artificial intelligence; demonstration / practical training in 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

 

TEXT BOOKS

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

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