Simulation and prediction of flow patterns in mold filling

来源期刊：中国有色金属学报(英文版)2001年第5期

论文作者：薛祥 张跃冰 P. N. Hansen

文章页码：743 - 747

Key words：mold filling; free surface; gating design

Abstract: The potential of a 3D FDM (Finite Difference Method) computer code was presented, in prediction of flow patterns by modeling the mold filling phenomena through different gating systems. In this code, improvements and modifications were made on the original SOLA-VOF and Donor-Acceptor algorithms. A more accurate solution procedure for handling free surfaces is developed in order to describe the flows through complicated gating designs. A block casting of 200mm×200mm×50mm with two different gating designs was chosen as the verifying problem. Water analog studies are carried out on these two gating designs. The comparison indicates that computer simulation could be a powerful tool in shaping gating systems.