Jet Flow Characteristics of 3-Slot Nozzle in Gas Wiping Process at Continuous Galvanizing Line

Takeda, Gentaro; Takahashi, Hideyuki; Kabeya, Kazuhisa

doi:10.2355/isijinternational.isijint-2016-715

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“…Typically in a CGL, the reduction of coating thickness after wiping to the nozzle-strip distance ratio is around 0.1 and the strip speed is much lower than the mean jet velocity, 2,32) hence most studies consider an impinging jet on a moving metallic coated strip as a jet impinging on a stationary flat solid plate. 35,[37][38][39] Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations describing the dynamics of an impinging jet on a flat stationary plate shown in Fig. 1(a), were carried out using Large Eddy Simulations (LES) with Smagorinsky subgrid-scale (SGS) turbulent model.…”

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Vortex Dynamics and Fluctuations of Impinging Planar Jet

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Smoothness of thin metallic coated strip produced in continuous galvanizing lines is influenced by fluctuations of the impinging wiping pressure. In this paper, vortex dynamics e.g. vortex production frequency and mixing of jet opposing shear layer vortices; and impinging pressure were numerically studied by Large Eddy Simulation (LES). The effects of jet nozzle width, d, and operational parameters (nozzle to strip distance, H, and mean jet velocity, U o) were investigated. Vortex production rate is almost linearly correlated to U o and mixing of shear layer vortices occurs when H/d ≥ 6. Dominant frequencies of impinging pressure fluctuation are significantly different between the two possible phenomena of i) Mixing of opposing shear layer vortices prior to jet impingement on the strip, or ii) No mixing of opposing shear layer vortices prior to jet impingement. The impinging pressure of a jet characterised by mixing of vortices is predominantly composed of frequencies lower than 10 kHz with the most significant components at less than 1 kHz. In contrast, for a jet with non-mixing of vortices, the impinging pressure fluctuations are comprised of frequencies greater than 10 kHz and the dominant frequency is approximately one half the vortex production frequency. Utilising existing model results for the coating thickness response to pressure and shear stress fluctuations 12) the anticipated degree of coating thickness sensitivity to the mixing and nonmixing impinging jet cases of the present work has been elucidated. It is shown that a mixed vortices jet is most likely to cause surface ripples in the coating.

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Patterns and Reduced-Order Reconstruction of Impinging Wiping Jet Pressure Profile Fluctuation Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

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Journal of Fluids Engineering

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Wiping jet impingement pressure is important in controlling the coating mass (thickness) and influencing the smoothness of the thin metallic coating produced in continuous galvanizing lines (CGLs). However, the fluctuation of the impingement pressure profile that directly impacts the coating smoothness has not been adequately understood. To study key features of the impingement pressure fluctuation, the instantaneous impingement pressure profiles obtained from Large Eddy Simulations were analyzed using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD). Dominant fluctuation modes of pressure profiles can be differentiated from the energy contents of the modes corresponding to different jet types namely mixing, non-mixing, and transitional mixing jet. The dominant modes of mixing jets in the wiping region contain comparable strength of all modes (flapping, pulsing, and out-of-phase multi pulsing). Non-mixing jets do not show discernable fluctuation modes and transitional mixing jets show pulsing and flapping modes only. Additionally, instantaneous maximum pressure gradient and their location were determined from the reduced-order reconstruction of the pressure profiles. From the analysis, frequency spectra of the magnitude and location fluctuations of the maximum pressure gradients associated with each of the jet types can be clearly distinguished. This is a knowledge that may be helpful for CGL operators in the operation of wiping jets.

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Jet Flow Characteristics of 3-Slot Nozzle in Gas Wiping Process at Continuous Galvanizing Line

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

Vortex Dynamics and Fluctuations of Impinging Planar Jet

Vortex Dynamics and Fluctuations of Impinging Planar Jet

Patterns and Reduced-Order Reconstruction of Impinging Wiping Jet Pressure Profile Fluctuation Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

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