MT619

PROCESS MODELING

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