pzimbrod/ieee-iceccme-2022

Efficient Simulation of Complex Capillary Effects in Advanced Manufacturing Processes using the Finite Volume Method

This is the source repository for the corresponding article submitted to IEEEE ICECCME 2022.

Contents

Article

All sources files for the TeX document can be found in this folder, including references, figures and the source files.

2D-Benchmark

The OpenFOAM case files needed to run the capillary droplet benchmark described in section V.A.

To run in serial, execute the Allrun script.

To run in parallel, you must first modify the partitioning of the domain according to your number of physical cores in system/decomposeParDict. Then, run the Allrun-parallel script.

Results can be visualized in ParaView. To replicate Fig. 2 in the article, you can import the paraview state fig-2.pvsm.

LPBF-application

The OpenFOAM case files needed to run the 3D Laser Powder Bed Fusion model given in section V.B.

To fully replicate this model, you must also install Yade DEM software. Then run create-powderbed.py to create the powder bed packing and export the .geo file. Then, using the Allmesh script that relies on GMSH, create the .stl geometries that can be read in by OpenFOAM.

After that, proceed as described in the previous section to run the simulation in parallel. Expect this to run for several hours.

Dependencies

The proposed FVM code thermocapillaryInterFoam must be installed locally in order to run the models. The source is available in the corresponding GitHub repo

Citing

This article is published in IEEE, please cite as:

@INPROCEEDINGS{9988504,
author={Zimbrod, Patrick and Schreter, Magdalena and Schilp, Johannes},
booktitle={2022 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME)},
title={Efficient Simulation of Complex Capillary Effects in Advanced Manufacturing Processes using the Finite Volume Method},
year={2022},  volume={},  number={},  pages={1-6},  doi={10.1109/ICECCME55909.2022.9988504}
}

License

MIT