Fluid flow of water in a model of a slab caster has been simulated using the large eddy simulation (LES) computational approach, and the simulated results are compared with experimental measurements performed using digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) techniques. Simulation results agree acceptably well with the experimental measurements of instantaneous velocity fields. Flow patterns change with time as a consequence of the vertical oscillation of the jet core. These oscillations are originated by the residual Reynolds stresses that characterize turbulent flows. The asymmetry of fluid flows caused by these stresses provides biased flows. Thus, turbulence originates natural biasing effects without the influence of other operating factors such as the slide gate opening, gas bubbling, or inclusions clogging of the submerged entry nozzle (SEN). Instantaneous velocities follow periodical behaviors with time whose frequencies increase with increases of flow rate of liquid. Periodical flow changes originate velocity spikes, at some given casting speed, which are physically and mathematically identified. These sudden changes of fluid velocities are responsible of unsteady phenomena associated with fluid dynamics during steady operations of the mold.
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