Enhancing robustness and applicability of contactless inductive flow tomography

Measuring the flow velocity in hot, chemically aggressive and opaque melts is a challenging task even for today´s measurement techniques. The contactless inductive flow tomography (CIFT) could provide a solution by applying magnetic fields to an electrically conducting melt and measuring the small flow-induced magnetic perturbances outside of the container. In this paper we will demonstrate how the robustness of CIFT can be enhanced by means of excitation with time-harmonic magnetic fields, making it more insensitive to the ubiquitous changes of the environmental magnetic field. Further we will show how the problem of an electrically conducting container can be treated, which is necessary, e.g., for industrial application in continuous casting.