Induction furnace modeling

Induction Skull Melting furnace:

Semi Levitation of  titanium charge in a cold crucible – Modeling with Comsol Multiphysics software

3D-Numerically calculated shape of a 2kg liquid titanium charge- Magnetohydrodynamics – Evolution vs time 

(a) Conventionnal shape

Induction skull melting - MHD Modeling with Comsol

Cold crucible massive shape – MHD modeling with Comsol              Dumont, Ernst et al  2015

(b) Optimized thin shape with improved energetic efficiency and better levitation

induction skull melting - MHD modeling with comsol

Cold crucible Thin shape – MHD modeling with Comsol              Dumont, Ernst et al  2015

Comsol conference–”Electromagnetic Processing from AC to DC field and Multiphysics Modeling : a Way for Process Innovation”, M.Dumont, R.Ernst, Y.Fautrelle, J.Etay -EMDPI and  SIMAP/EPM laboratory, Grenoble, (France) in  European Comsol Conference, oct 2015, Grenoble, France.