The Interfacial Heat Transfer
Coefficient of Metal Castings - A Literature Review
Jonathan W. Woolley and Keith A. Woodbury
American Foundry Society Transactions, Volume 115
ABSTRACT
For decades now, the inverse heat conduction problem
has been applied to estimate the interfacial heat transfer coefficient of metal
castings.This technique has been
applied by numerous researchers to various casting techniques and alloys.This paper is a review of related literature
and a summary of previous work.Over 100
papers related to the determination of the metal/mold interfacial heat transfer
coefficient for various metal casting systems have been briefly reviewed.Emphasis is placed on the solution method to
find the interfacial heat transfer coefficient or heat flux, the handling of
sensitivity issues and the reported results.
