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Mathematical modelling and computational reduction of molten glass fluid flow in a furnace melting basin

Authors

Ballarin, Francesco , DELGADO AVILA, ENRIQUE, Mola, Andrea , Rozza, Gianluigi

External publication

No

Means

Comput. Appl. Math.

Scope

Article

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

SJR Quartile

Publication date

01/10/2024

ISI

001312006400001

Abstract

In this work, we present the modelling and numerical simulation of a molten glass fluid flow in a furnace melting basin. We first derive a model for a molten glass fluid flow and present numerical simulations based on the finite element method (FEM). We further discuss and validate the results obtained from the simulations by comparing them with experimental results. Finally, we also present a non-intrusive proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) based on artificial neural networks (ANN) to efficiently handle scenarios which require multiple simulations of the fluid flow upon changing parameters of relevant industrial interest. This approach lets us obtain solutions of a complex 3D model, with good accuracy with respect to the FEM solution, yet with negligible associated computational times.

Keywords

Molten glass flow; Finite element method; Artificial neural networks; Proper orthogonal decomposition