中国有色金属学报(英文版)
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
| Vol. 24 No. 5 May 2014 |
（1. Key Laboratory of Microsystems and Microstructures Manufacturing, Ministry of Education,
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China;
2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China;
3. School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China）
Abstract:Liquid metal filling flow process in the microscale during the centrifugal casting process was studied by means of similar physical simulation. The research was focused on derived similarity criterion. Based on the traditional flow equations, the flow equation and the Bernoulli’s equation for liquid metal flows in micro-scale space were derived, which provides a mathematical model for numerical simulation of micro-scale flow. In the meanwhile, according to the micro-flow equation and the similarity theory, the similarity criterion for the physical simulation of the mold filling behaviors was presented under centrifugal force field, so as to achieve the visual observation and quantitative analysis of micro-flow process.
Key words: micro-channel; micro-flow; centrifugal force field; similarity criterion
