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DecastProject data

• Title: Enhanced design environment for industrial casting processes on parallel computing platforms

• Project type: Esprit, EU• Reference: Esprit 28144• Period: 01/09/1998 – 28/02/2001 • Collaborators: Orlando Soto, Herbert Coppola-Owen

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Objectives

To model mould filling processes:• To determine the position of the front of

the molten metal• To predict conflicting regions• To compute filling times• To account for thermal effects

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Key numerical ingredients

• Tracking of free surfaces through level set techniques

• Stabilized finite element approximation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

• Block-iterative coupling with temperature

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Results I

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Results II

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Results III

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Results IV

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Results V

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Results VI