... 09 2009 04 03 2010 04 03 2010 elasticity erosion furnaces heat conduction inverse problems refractories smelting inverse problems shape determination refractory wall wall erosion shape design hearth wear Walls of furnaces that contain molten materials (metal...

... is presented along with the examples of hearth inner profile predictions. A new methodology along with new algorithms is proposed to calculate the hearth erosion and its inner profile. The methodology is to estimate the hearth primary inner profile based on 1D heat transfer and to compute the hot-face...