Numerical Simulation and Optimization Design of Electromagnetic Fields in the Electromagnetic Casting of Copper Round Billet

Electromagnetic casting technology became maturity and gained wide applications in steel-making and aluminum casting, which is still immature in copper casting. Electromagnetic continuous casting with soft-contact mold was employed to produce copper round billet with high density. At the same time, in this paper, a mathematical model of the electromagnetic field in the soft-contact mold was built on the base of the vector potential method, then it was solved by the ANSYS commercial FEM software. Current and frequency was altered in the course of operation so as to find out how they effect the magnetic field distributing. Its accuracy was verified by the measurement result of the electromagnetic field in the mold without billet. By this model, the effect of excitation current on field was gained, which set up a certainty foundation for more research.