This volume covers various aspects of the fundamentals, synthesis, analysis, design, monitoring, and control of metals, materials, and metallurgical processes and phenomena. Topics represented include but are not limited to:
• Use of artificial intelligence or big data in the control or optimization of industrial processes
• Modelling or optimization of recycle streams and scrap loops
• Measurement and control in hostile environments
• Modeling transport phenomena in materials processing and metallurgical processes involving iron, steel, nonferrous metals, and composites
• Thermodynamics, kinetics, and physical chemistry of materials processes and modelling thereof
