Fluid flow characteristics in a two strand slab continuous casting tundish with different configurations of argon gas bubbling curtain (GBC) were investigated in physical modelling experiments. It was found from this research that the GBC with a small flow rate acted as a gas dam and could greatly improve the flow characteristics in the tundish. It increased dramatically the peak concentration time and plug flow volume, decreased greatly the dead volume, created surface directed flow and eliminated short circuiting. Therefore, the fluid flow characteristics in a tundish with GBC were favourable to the floatation and separation of inclusions from molten steel. The flow characteristics with low gas flow rate and short distance of the bubbling curtain from the tundish outlet were better than those with high gas flow rate and large distance of the curtain to the outlet. The optimal configuration for the improvement in fluid flow characteristics was turbulence inhibitor (TI)-weir-dam-GBC (TI-W-D-GBC), followed by TI-channel weir (CW)-GBC, TI-W-GBC and TI-GBC.
The segregation of Cu atoms in the Cu/Ni multilayers was investigated by means of the full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave method with the generalized-gradient approximation formula. We investigated the segregation of Cu atoms when the Cu/Ni slab is along the (001) and (111) directions, respectively. The results obtained show that at most one-layer Cu atoms can segregate to the Ni surface when Ni films are deposited on the Cu substrate and the segregation of Cu atoms is not sensitive to the orientation of the Cu/Ni slab surface. The result of Cu segregation is to reduce the vacuum effect.
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