Connectivity aware simulated annealing kernel methods for coke microstructure generation
Authors: Bissaker Edward , Lamichhane Bishnu , Jenkins David 
Published: July 2022

A vital input for steel manufacture is a coal-derived solid fuel called coke. Digital reconstructions and simulations of coke are valuable tools to analyse and test coke properties. We implement biased voxel iteration into a simulated annealing method via a kernel convolution to reduce the number of iterations required to generate a digital coke microstructure. We demonstrate that voxel connectivity assumptions impact the number of iterations and reduce the normalised computation time required to generate a digital microstructure by as much as 70%.
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