TY - JOUR T1 - Scientific Computing for Aluminum Production AU - Flück , M. AU - Hofer , T. AU - Picasso , M. AU - Rappaz , J. AU - Steiner , G. JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling VL - 3 SP - 489 EP - 504 PY - 2009 DA - 2009/06 SN - 6 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/780.html KW - Aluminum production, electrolysis, magnetohydrodynamics, alumina injection and dissolution. AB -

Numerical simulation in aluminum production involves many different topics, this paper is dedicated to some aspects of two of them. In the first part, a numerical approach for the computation of the motion of the fluids in an electrolytic cell is presented, with an emphasis on a mesh deformation technique to track the free interface during the time. In a second part, a model for the simulation of alumina dissolution and repartition is exposed.