基于注意力门控双头U-Net的板坯结晶器流场快速预测
1 东北大学 材料电磁过程研究教育部重点实验室 沈阳 110819
2 东北大学 冶金学院 沈阳 110819
收稿日期: 2026-01-04
修回日期: 2026-05-13
录用日期: 2026-06-04
网络出版日期: 2026-06-04
基金资助
国家自然科学基金(52574374); 中央高校基本科研业务费(N25BSS085)
Fast Prediction of Flow Fields in a Slab Continuous Casting Mold by an Attention-Gated Dual-Head U-Net
Received date: 2026-01-04
Revised date: 2026-05-13
Accepted date: 2026-06-04
Online published: 2026-06-04
关键词: 湍流; 注意力门控双头U-Net; 数据扩展; 小样本; 数字孪生
孙乙力 , 雷洪 , 李泽奇 , 姜媛馨 , 张晗 , 赵岩 . 基于注意力门控双头U-Net的板坯结晶器流场快速预测[J]. 金属学报, 0 : 0 . DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2026.00001
The flow field of molten steel in the mold play an important role in the slab quality, and rapid and accurate prediction of flow-field is an important foundation of process optimization and on-line control for continuous casting. Because high computational cost of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations for flow field in a slab continuous-casting mold cannot satisfy the demand of the rapid evaluation, an attention-gated dual-head U-Net model is proposed on the base of small-sample on a two-dimensional flow-field. First, three-dimensional steady-state flow field is obtained by OpenFOAM, and the related two-dimensional flow-field is obtained by interpolation. Next, a data extension method based on the statistical characteristics of turbulent kinetic energy is developed to expand the flow-field dataset according to the relationship between turbulent kinetic energy and fluctuating velocity. Furthermore, an attention-gated dual-head U-Net model with a multi-channel input integrating the signed distance function (SDF) and inlet velocity masks is proposed to adaptively focus on key flow regions, which include the jet from the nozzle and the upper and lower recirculation zones. The results show that, after training, the inference time for a flow-field is less than 1 s. Under the conditions of a fixed nozzle angle and various casting rates, the velocity mean absolute error (MAE) is on the order of 10-3 m/s. Under the unseen nozzle-angle and casting-rate conditions, the velocity MAE remains on the order of 10-2 m/s. These results demonstrate that the data extension method based on turbulent-kinetic-energy statistics combined with the attention-gated dual-head U-Net model can enable rapid reconstruction of molten-steel flow fields in the mold, and provide a feasible approach for subsequent multi-physics digital-twin modeling of continuous casting.
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