A study of thermal field in induction melting with cold crucible and dual induction
frequencies is presented in this paper. Numerical simulation was done by finite element based
software COMSOL with use of multi-physical modeling. A method of superposing of magnetic
vector potential is proposed to solve the complexity of dual induction frequencies. Different
conditions of high and low frequencies were given in the calculation to find the effects on
distribution of thermal fields. The computed temperature distribution was compared with the macro
etched section of solidified ingots and the results showed that the orientation of dendritic grain
structures follow to the similar direction of heat flow. This indicates that proper set of induction
coils could enable more uniform thermal field distribution and attaining controlled solidification
morphology in the ingots.
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