Technical papers

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

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

Numerical Methods For 3D Compressive RTM Simulations
The extensive use of composite materials in automotive structural components with high mechanical requirements is today limited by different concerns such as production rates. The compressive resin transfer molding…
Composites Compressive RTM, Fluid/Solid coupling, Composites virtual manufacturing, Process simulation

Modeling of structure-borne underwater radiated noise using a small reference structure
Increased environmental awareness has created the need in commercial shipping, in addition to established military requirements, to understand and manage structure-borne machinery noise radiated to water. Noise created…
Vibro-Acoustics

Advanced RADAR Sensors Modeling for Driving Assistance Systems Testing
With Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) getting always more sophisticated, the related Virtual Prototyp-ing platforms have to propose a very high level of accuracy with improved flexibility regarding vehicles,…
Electromagnetics ADAS, RADAR sensors, Virtual Prototyping, Driving Simulators, ESI Pro-SiVIC™ platform

Modelling & Validation of Blown Powder in Additive Manufacturing Processes
N. N’Dri, H.-W. Mindt, H. Duan, Y. Vincent, O. Köser, M. Megahed, Blanka Szost, Sofiane Terzi & David John Jarvis, Ludovic Kounde & Thierry Engel, Modelling & Validation of Blown Powder Additive…
Virtual Performance Additive Manufacturing, Blown Powder Processes, Laser Direct Metal Deposition, Melt Pool, Residual Stresses, Distortion, Modelling

Verification Of Numerically Calculated Cooling Rates Of Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing
H.-W. Mindt, M. Megahed, Verification of Numerically Calculated Cooling Rates of Powder Process Additive Manufacturing, TMS 2016 145th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Feb. 14-18, 2016, Nashville, Tennessee.…
Virtual Performance Additive Manufacturing, Powder Bed, Direct Metal Laser Melting, Modelling, Verification

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.

Powder Bed Models - Numerical Assessment of As-Built Quality
H.-W. Mindt, Brian Shula, M. Megahed, A. D. Peralta, J. Neumann, Powder Bed Models – Numerical Assessment of As-Built Quality, AIAA 2016-1657, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2016, 4-8 January, 2016…
Virtual Performance Additive Manufacturing, Powder Bed, Direct Metal Laser Melting, Modelling, Verification

DMLS Process Modelling & Validation
N. N’Dri, H.-W. Mindt, B. Shula, M. Megahed, A. Peralta, P. Kantzos and J. Neumann, DMLS Process Modelling & Validation, TMS 2015 144th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, March 15-19, 2015, Orlando, FL.…
Virtual Performance Selective Laser Sintering, Direct Metal Laser Sintering, Modelling, Melt Pool, Residual stress, Distortion