Centrifugal Casting Workspace Highlights
- Advanced motion controls allow for precise simulation of all spin permutations
- Solutions include horizontal pipe casting, vertical jewelry casting, vertical large-scale spin
- Dynamic spin rate control during solidification
Workspace Overview
The Centrifugal Casting Workspace provides centrifugal casting users with an easy-to-use tool for simulating horizontal and vertical true centrifugal castings, semi-centrifugal castings, and centrifuge castings. With the new Centrifugal Casting Workspace, users will find all the tools needed to model their process and optimize design parameters. Pinning molds and rotating meshes provide users with the flexibility to model any mold motion imaginable including ladle pouring.
Cylindrical meshing delivers the greatest flow modeling accuracy possible, while multi-block meshing provides an efficient method for even more accuracy in high shear and high temperature gradient regions of the casting. The solution predicts flow-related issues such as raining due to inadequate mold rotation speed, and defects such as air entrainment or remelting of solidified regions. Process parameters such as mold preheat temperature, cooling configurations, and mold rotation rates can all be part of the model setup.
Processes modeled
- Horizontal and Vertical true centrifugal processes
- Semi-centrifugal processes
- Centrifuge
Thermal mold modeling
- Localized die heating controls with heating elements
- Convective and radiative heat transfer
Flexible Meshing
- Cylindrical meshes for best accuracy
- Multi-block meshing captures flow and temperature gradients
Filling accuracy
- Melt pickup and rainfall prediction
- Gas/bubble entrapment
- Surface oxide calculation
- RNG and LES turbulence models
Mold motion control
- Vertical and horizontal rotation
- Variable spin rates
Ladle Pouring
Advanced solidification
- Shrinkage
- Directional solidification
Defect prediction
- Porosity prediction
- Entrained air
- Early solidification
- Oxide formation
Dynamic simulation control
- Pour control based on flow dynamics
Complete analysis package
- Animations with multi-viewports - 3D, 2D, history plots, volume rendering
- Porosity analysis tool
- Side-by-side simulation results comparison
- Sensors for measuring melt temperature, solid fraction
- Particle tracers
- Batch post-processing
- Report generation
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