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RUSSULA NEWSLETTER No. 11

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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT & INNOVATION<br />

Five Spanish Universities join forces in Industrial<br />

Mathematics Program to solve various industry problems<br />

During the last fifteen years, Russula has collaborated<br />

with many universities to develop innovative technological<br />

solutions that generate knowledge and value to<br />

the products offered to our customers. With this idea<br />

in mind, Russula´s R& D department, participates another<br />

year in the Masters in Industrial Mathematics during<br />

2015.<br />

This master is formed by members of academic committees<br />

from 5 different universities in Spain. Three are<br />

located in the the Galician region, Santiago de Compostela,<br />

A Coruña and Vigo; and two in Madrid, specifically<br />

Carlos III and Polytechnic University.<br />

The goal of the M2i program is for participating engineers<br />

to face real problems in the industry and develop<br />

solutions through the use of specific software, theoretical<br />

applied analytics and appropriate design tools.<br />

Companies from the industry collaborate by proposing<br />

a problem and monitoring the progress of the project.<br />

Through this collaboration a two fold objective is<br />

achieved: first the engineer is exposed to similar problems<br />

that they may encounter in their professional future<br />

outside their academic envirnoment; secondly, the<br />

companies benefit from receiving a different<br />

perspective to the standard solutions that they are accustomed<br />

to implementing. In addition the participants<br />

in the Masters have at their disposal different analysis<br />

tools and software provided by the Universities.<br />

This is the second year Russula has participated in the<br />

Industrial Problems Workshop for 2015. In 2014, Russula<br />

presented three problems, two of which led to final<br />

projects for the master thesis. The three problems presented<br />

were:<br />

• Project 1 -3D modeling continuous tempering<br />

of steel bars in water boxes.<br />

• Project 2 - Creating a phenomenological model<br />

for convective transport of heat in the combustion<br />

chamber of a steel reheating furnace.<br />

• Project 3 - 3D modeling and simulation of the<br />

flow of escape gas in the billet reheating furnace<br />

combustion chamber.<br />

The results of the three projects were subsequently<br />

used for improvement parameterization in the cooling<br />

process of bars and modeling the behavior of reheating<br />

furnace results.<br />

In 2015, Russula paticipated again in the Industrial<br />

25 Russula Newsletter <strong>No</strong>. <strong>11</strong> April 2015 - Copyright © by <strong>RUSSULA</strong> S.A.

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