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Rui Liu

Ph.D. student
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Advisor: Professor Brian G. Thomas

Office Address: Metals Processing Simulation Laboratory

E-mail: email

Research Interests: CFD simulation of transient liquid-gas two-phase flows, particle transport and entrapment, large eddy simulation

 

Research Area:

Transient flow behavior in SEN and mold, particle transport and sliver formation, multiphase flows

Education:

B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing
July 2005
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing
June 2008

Positions Held:

Fall 2008-present
Research Assistant
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Projects:

Multiphase flow in SEN and CC mold and stopper-rod movement induced sliver formation

Mini-Projects:

Simulation of slag entrainment due to KH instability

Gas flow through heated refractory wall and bubble size estimation

Fluid flow and heat transfer in beam-blank mold

Nail-board measurements of liquid steel surface velocity

Analytical model for liquid flux flow through shell-mold gap