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Title:

Stability analysis of interfacial waves in Hall-Heroult process through a weighted residual model

Agreement Number:

EGP

Agreement Value:

$25,000.00

Agreement Date:

Apr 25, 2017 -

Organization:

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Location:

Quebec, CA

Reference Number:

GC-2017-Q1-00352

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Additional Information:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)

Recipient's Legal Name:

Taghavi, Seyed Mohammad (Université Laval)

Program:

Engage Grants for Universities

Program Purpose:

Aluminum products are increasingly used in Canada and worldwide in automobiles, aircraft and many otherx000D
applications. One of the key elements in the production of aluminum is Hall-He´roult process, which is thex000D
major industrial process for smelting aluminum. One main problem in this process is the occurrence of fluidx000D
interfacial instabilities within the Hall-He´roult reduction cells, due to gravity waves modified by intensex000D
electric/magnetic fields. There are many parameters that can affect the stability of the flow, e.g., magnitude ofx000D
various forces, density difference, fluid layer thicknesses, wall friction coefficient, etc. In this research project,x000D
we develop a mathematical modelling approach to analyze the flow stability to finally predict and preventx000D
interfacial instabilities that may occur in Hall-He´roult reduction cells.