Flow Science - Version FLOW-3D CAST -Tilt Pour Casting Workspace

The Tilt Pour Casting Workspace is an intuitive modeling environment designed to help engineers successfully model tilt pour casting applications with FLOW-3D CAST. The workspace includes process-specific die and material types, where rotational motions are easily defined in order to match exact machine capabilities. Venting and backpressure are included in the fill analysis for a complete analysis of air entrapment defects, while thermal die cycling and state-of-the-art solidification models are seamlessly connected to the fill through the workspace’s sub-process architecture. The Tilt Pour Casting Workspace provides a complete and accurate solution for all aspects of the simulation in a simple yet versatile modeling environment.

PROCESSES MODELED

• Tilt pour
• Reverse tilt pour

FLEXIBLE MESHING

• FAVOR™ simple mesh generation tool
• Multi-block meshing
• Conforming meshing

DIE THERMAL MANAGMENT

• Thermal die cycling
• Heat saturation
• Full heat transfer modeling

ADVANCED SOLIDIFICATION

• Porosity prediction
• Shrinkage
• Hot spots identification
• Thermal modulus
• Mechanical property prediction

SAND CORES

• Core gas evolution
• Material definitions for core properties

MOLD MOTION CONTROL

• Six axes of rotation
• Tabular input for rotational velocities

DEFECT PREDICTION

• Macro and micro porosity
• Gas porosity
• Early solidification
• Oxide formation
• Surface defect analysis

DYNAMIC SIMULATION CONTROL

• Event probe-based triggers for motion control

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