Technical papers

Renault employs ESI QuikCAST to Define Standards for Quality Castings
THE CHALLENGE To define design rules for filling & feeding systems across different product lines to enhance competitiveness and achieve quality casting production. THE STORY Traditional methods in the past had…
Casting
Added Value of Process Modelling in Development of Automotive Die Casting Parts
Porosity in high performance castings can reduce mechanical properties and consequently degrade both component life and durability. Automotive Market increasingly requests High Performance Castings with high structural…
Casting Die Casting, HPDC, part design, die design, casting development loop, digital tuning, die cycling, simulation, Porosity, Workflow, Macros, Automatization, Renault, ESI
The Practical and Effective Deployment of Virtual Casting
It can be an interesting journey when a foundry moves from quite conventional process design methods to one based on virtual prototyping technology, i.e. computational or virtual casting. Specific examples are discussed…
Casting
Coupled Vibro-Acoustic and CFD Modeling Solution for Complex-Shaped Mufflers Subject
Flow within a duct strongly affects the propagation of acoustic waves. This effect must be addressed by the vibroacoustic modeling of duct systems that are subject to flow. The effective sound propagation speed in a…
CFD, Vibro-Acoustics
Electric Steelmaking Coupled Multiphysics Simulation by Finite Elements
State of the art computer aided coupled multiphysics simulation tools can be advantageous in the understanding and design of industrial processes. This paper presents such a tool for electric steelmaking, metallurgical…
Casting, CFD STEELMAKING, CASTING, METALLURGY, INDUCTION HEATING, MAGNETIC STIRRING, SURFACE HARDENING, FINITE ELEMENTS, EDGE ELEMENTS, COUPLED MULTIPHYSICS, COMPUTER SIMULATION
Verification Of Continuous Casting Process Of Steel Round Billets Using Numerical Modelling
Continuous casting technology is currently the primary method in production of steel billets and slabs. The primary and secondary cooling must ensure the continuous casting of steel without strand breakouts and other…
Casting Steel, continuous casting, numerical modelling, metallurgical length, hot tears
Hydrogen Tracking In Production Of A Special Forging: From Ingot Casting To Heat Treatment Using Simulation
Hydrogen has been and always will be a source of various problems within steel production because of its generally detrimental effects on processing characteristics and service performance of steel products.…
Casting Hydrogen Flakes, Microstructure, Casting Simulation, Forging Simulation, Heat Treatment Simulation
Virtualization Of High Vacuum And High Performance HPDC Machine For Top Quality Casting
OEM and automotive market is driven foundry suppliers to high performance castings: high structural integrity, high mechanical properties, welding and heat treatment. These requirements are typically obtain with gravity…
Casting HPDC, CASTING SIMULATION SOFTWARE, VACUUM DIE CASTING, DCM, MACHINE
Alternative Solution Algorithms For Primal And Adjoint Incompressible Navier-Stokes
Regardless of the specific discretisation framework, the discrete incompressible Navier-Stokes equations present themselves in the form of a non-linear, saddle-point Oseentype system. Traditional CFD codes typically…
CFD Oseen Preconditioners, Adjoint Navier-Stokes, Block-Coupled, SIMPLEC, V-Coupled, Augmented Lagrangian.
Using CFD flow fields to inform acoustic finite element models of complex mufflers with thermal and flow effects
Many actual muffler systems with complex geometry have large temperature variations and large variations in the flow field under normal operating conditions. Often perforated regions and other complex design elements…
CFD, Vibro-Acoustics CFD flow, complex mufflers, thermal and flow effects, CFD VA coupling