Liquid Metal Transfer Experiment for Development of Electric Casting Systems

This paper reports the experimental test results of flow velocity of low-melting-point conductive liquid metal using a simplified electromagnetic pump model. A gallium was used as the low-melting-point metal in this experiment, and the flow velocity was measured by changing the gap length between the simply modeled electromagnetic pump and the gallium. As a result, the measured flow velocity map was clarified, and it was revealed that the excitation frequency contributes more to the change in flow velocity than the armature magnetomotive force by increasing the gap length.