NovaCast

Nova Flow & Solid CV (NFS)

Simulation Technology

IMF Spring Meeting

April 9-10, 2019

Modeling Your Process

Control Volume Meshing Technology

Simulating Mold Filling, Solidification, Residual Stresses

Results From Simulations and Analyzing Them

Presentation Outline

Solidification Engineering

Modelling Objects

-3D CAD Modelof mold and cavitycomponents

Mathematical Modelling

- Enmeshment- Flow & Solidification & Stress Maths- Materials- Initial conditions- Boundary conditions

Process Modelling

Our Metallurgical Knowledge and Experience

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DragPoured metal

Insulator Air

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*Materials**Casting mat’l**Mold mat’l**Chills/Cores/exo/insulators/**Coatings/cooling-heating/etc.

*Initial/Boundary Conditions**Temperatures/Flow rates/etc.

Control Volume Meshing

Multi-Mesh Simulations

Variable-Mesh Simulations(Stress Module only for now – under dev for other modules)

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Deformed Body as STL Shrinkage as STL

Data per node as TXT

Data Export

Thank you…….