“…Besides the approach of tracing the groove rolling back to an equivalent flat rolling pass, there were also investigations focusing on the modelling of material flow, including the actual shape of the groove (Goldhahn, 1981;Hensel & Goldhahn, 1981;Hensel & Spittel, 1978;Kopp et al, 1985;Mauk & Kopp, 1982). To make optimum use of these models, attempts to automatic groove pass design were always an issue of development (Betshammer, 2006;Eriksson, 2004Eriksson, , 2005Eriksson & Lundberg, 2004;Hensel, 1987;Hensel & Großmann, 1987;Hensel & Wehage, 1988;Körmer, 1987;Krause et al, 2007;Kunzman, 1977;Lambiase & Langella, 2009;Malmgren, 2000;Ogoltcov et al, 2015;Overhagen, Braun, Gamal, et al, 2020;Overhagen, Braun, & Deike, 2020;Overhagen, 2021;Schmidt, 1997;Schmidtchen et al, 2020;Schmidtchen & Prahl, 2021). An exhaustive overview of general tasks in roll pass design and published models is given by Oduguwa & Roy (2006).…”