MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF THE HEATING AND MELTING 
OF THE METAL CHARGE IN AN ELECTRIC-ARC STEEL-MAKING FURNACE

Yu. A. Stankevich,a V. I. Timoshpol'skii,b 
N. V. Pavlyukevich,a M. G. German,c 
and P. S. Grinchuka

UDC 669.18

A mathematical model has been developed and an algorithm 
of calculation of heat- and mass-transfer processes in heating and 
melting of metal scrap in an electric-arc steel-making furnace has 
been created. The results of numerical modeling of the dynamics of 
melting of metal scrap in this furnace have been given.

Keywords: metal scrap melting, electric-arc steel-making furnace, 
molten bath, radiation fluxes, heat exchange, mathematical model.
 
aA. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; email: 
pnv@hmti.ac.by; b"Eurofinance Ltd." Company, Kiev; 
cBelarusian Institute of Thermal-Power Engineering, Minsk. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 227-241, 
March-April, 2009. Original article submitted July 7, 2008.