RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA CONCERNING MHD PROCESSING OF MATERIALS

Some new activities started in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Bologna, with the aim to analyze different applications of MHD Sciences and superconducting technologies. Thanks to the cooperation with Kawasaki Steel Corporation, Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Nagoya University, numerical and experimental activities have been camed out during the last three years. This paper reports three different topics: the threedimensional numerical simulation of the molten steel flow in continuous casting mold, the evaluation of the influence of electromagnetic force on the boundary layer of a molten steel pool and the separation of inclusion in a molten metal through magnetization forces. For each activity, measured and calculated results are compared and discussed.