Abstract: Metallurgical slag is a melt composed of multiple oxides, and it can be classified into silicate slag and aluminate slag. Metallurgical slag has important functions in metallurgy such as heat insulation, prevention of secondary oxidation of molten steel, absorption of inclusions and removal of harmful elements in molten steel. The research and development of slag with excellent performance is a critical guarantee for energy saving, emission reduction and green development of the metallurgy process, so that it is necessary to systematically study the melt structure and properties of metallurgical slag. At present, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has become an extraordinary method to understand the melt structure and properties of high temperature slag, since experiments would be limited by the availability of the equipment. Due to the variety and complexity of metallurgical slag, the establishment in a wide range of correlations between the microstructure and macroscopic properties of metallurgical slag has become the research focus of researchers at home and abroad. MD simulation can obtain complete melt structure data such as bond length, bond angle and coordination number of different particle pairs in the slag. Based on this, the researchers used the degree of polymerization of the melt structure to establish the quantitative relationship between the viscosity and the structural units in multi-component slags. In addition, the conductivity of the slag is related to the diffusion capacity of ions in the melt structure, and the relationship between the conductivity and the melt structure can be established through the Nernst-Einstein equation. In this paper, the application of MD simulation on metallurgical slag is reviewed. First, the process of MD simulation used in metallurgical slag is described. Then, the application status of MD simulation on silicate slag and aluminate slag is introduced in detail respectively. Finally, the prospect of MD simulation on metallurgical slag is proposed by summarizing the existing problems in current researches.
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