Basedontheprincipleofsimilarity,waterwasusedtosimulatetheflowofmoltensteeltoanalyzetheflowfieldinatundish.Severalschemesofthetundish’stracershapeweredesignedandcorrespondingwatermodelexperimentswereconducted.Duringtheexperiments,acomputerautomaticallycollecteddata.Thecomparisonoftheresidencetimedistribution(RTD)curvesdrawnaccordingtothecomputer-collecteddataoptimizedtheschemeandphotographsoriginatedfromtheexperimentswithinkasitstracer.Itindicatesthatthewatermodelcanoptimizetheflowfieldofthetundish.