To validate the simulation software we compared the temperatures measured on the surface of a 65 tones ingot mould with the temperatures at the same points we got by simulation. From the four points of measurement, three of them have been at the level of middle bottom, ingot body and hot top and the last one on the surface of hot top.

Additionally, belong the calculated temperatures on the mould surface, in Figure 1 are presented several other temperatures, in the mould wall or in the ingot during solidification.

Figure 1. Validation of the solidification simulation software

As we see in this figure, the evolution of temperatures measured on the mould, Figure 1.a are in very good agreement with the calculated temperatures, Figure 1.b, 1.c, 1.d and 1.e.