The article deals with visualization of heatlines and isotherms during cooling of a hot moving steel plate numerically. The cooling of the plate is assumed using single spray-water jet. The visualization process is carried out by forming and discretizing the governing energy equation based on finite volume method. The linear algebraic equations are solved by tri-diagonal matrix algorithm (TDMA). Accordingly, a numerical code is developed on FORTRAN platform. In the computational domain, a suitable heat transfer region for cooling is identified analyzing the heatline distribution in the domain and depends on the process parameters. Accordingly a parametric study is performed and reveals that effective heat transfer region increases with increasing jet velocity and cooling methods, and decreases with increasing plate velocity.
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