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The presented research is focused on identifying differences in the lengths of transition areas during the continuous casting of steel in a three-strand "T"-type tundish, considering various numbers of active strands. The study compares results from three types of measurements: in the first measurement, casting was simulated with three active strands (full capacity); in the second measurement, the simulation was realised with the middle strand disabled; and in the third measurement, the continuous casting process was simulated with one of the outer strands disabled. The measurement results indicate which mode, involving one inactive strand, is more suitable when one strand needs to be disabled in real-world operations during continuous steel casting. The research was realised in the SimConT laboratory located at the Technical University of Košice, at the IMTECH Institute. The SimConT laboratory specializes in the physical modelling of continuous steel casting processes. For the measurements, a three-strand "T"-type tundish model was used, scaled at 1:3 relative to the actual tundish used in continuous steel casting operations at Železiarne Podbrezová a.s
Keywords: Steel, Continuous Casting Machine, Tundish, Intermix, Physical Modelling, F-Curve© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.