CFD-VOF Analysis of an Air-knife for Wiping Thin Water Layers

  1. Celia Miguel González 1
  2. Manuel García-Díaz 2
  3. Bruno Pereiras 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

    Geographic location of the organization Universidad de Oviedo
  2. 2 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

    Geographic location of the organization Universidad de Valladolid
Proceedings:
Book of Abstracts of the1st Spanish Fluid Mechanics Conference

Publisher: Universidad de Cádiz

Year of publication: 2022

Pages: 177-178

Congress: Spanish Fluid Mechanics Conference (1. 2022. Cádiz)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

The deposition of liquids over the strip during steel manufacturing is essential for manyindustrial processes such as water cooling, lubrication, or cleaning. The most commonsystem for blowing-off liquid from a surface is an air-knife, whose nozzle gap is usuallyfixed by means of screws. In this work, the interaction air-liquid will be analyzed. Moreover,the 3D instabilities produced by the screws will be evaluated to analyze its impact in theuniform wiping of the continuous steel strip.

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