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Publication date: 13 February 2020

Haichao Cui, Qiang Gao, Xiaolan Li and Huajiang Ouyang

This paper aims to propose an efficient and accurate method to analyse the transient heat conduction in a periodic structure with moving heat sources.

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to propose an efficient and accurate method to analyse the transient heat conduction in a periodic structure with moving heat sources.

Design/methodology/approach

The moving heat source is modelled as a localised Gaussian distribution in space. Based on the spatial distribution, the physical feature of transient heat conduction and the periodic property of structure, a special feature of temperature responses caused by the moving heat source is illustrated. Then, combined with the superposition principle of linear system, within a small time-step, computation of results corresponding to the whole structure excited by the Gaussian heat source is transformed into that of some small-scale structures. Lastly, the precise integration method (PIM) is used to solve the temperature responses of each small-scale structure efficiently and accurately.

Findings

Within a reasonable time-step, the heat source applied on a unit cell can only cause the temperature responses of a limited number of adjacent unit cells. According to the above feature and the periodic property of a structure, the contributions caused by the moving heat source for the most of time-steps are repeatable, and the temperature responses of the entire periodic structure can be obtained by some small-scale structures.

Originality/value

A novel numerical method is proposed for analysing moving heat source problems, and the numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed method is much more efficient than the traditional methods, even for larger-scale problems and multiple moving heat source problems.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 30 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 21 December 2023

Mehran Ghasempour-Mouziraji, Daniel Afonso, Saman Hosseinzadeh, Constantinos Goulas, Mojtaba Najafizadeh, Morteza Hosseinzadeh, D.D. Ganji and Ricardo Alves de Sousa

The purpose of this paper is to assess the feasibility of analytical models, specifically the radial basis function method, Akbari–Ganji method and Gaussian method, in conjunction…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to assess the feasibility of analytical models, specifically the radial basis function method, Akbari–Ganji method and Gaussian method, in conjunction with the finite element method. The aim is to examine the impact of processing parameters on temperature history.

Design/methodology/approach

Through analytical investigation and finite element simulation, this research examines the influence of processing parameters on temperature history. Simufact software with a thermomechanical approach was used for finite element simulation, while radial basis function, Akbari–Ganji and Gaussian methods were used for analytical modeling to solve the heat transfer differential equation.

Findings

The accuracy of both finite element and analytical methods was validated with about 90%. The findings revealed direct relationships between thermal conductivity (from 100 to 200), laser power (from 400 to 800 W), heat source depth (from 0.35 to 0.75) and power absorption coefficient (from 0.4 to 0.8). Increasing the values of these parameters led to higher temperature history. On the other hand, density (from 7,600 to 8,200), emission coefficient (from 0.5 to 0.7) and convective heat transfer (from 35 to 90) exhibited an inverse relationship with temperature history.

Originality/value

The application of analytical modeling, particularly the utilization of the Akbari–Ganji, radial basis functions and Gaussian methods, showcases an innovative approach to studying directed energy deposition. This analytical investigation offers an alternative to relying solely on experimental procedures, potentially saving time and resources in the optimization of DED processes.

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Rapid Prototyping Journal, vol. 30 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2546

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Publication date: 8 February 2019

Rüdiger Schmitt

This paper aims to give an extended analytical solution for the thermal evolution of rotating tubes irradiated by a Gaussian laser beam. The heating process of opaque targets by…

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Purpose

This paper aims to give an extended analytical solution for the thermal evolution of rotating tubes irradiated by a Gaussian laser beam. The heating process of opaque targets by surface absorption of laser radiation is a topic of fundamental importance in many civilian and military applications (e.g. hollow tube processing, counter of rockets, mortars and artillery shells). The spatio-temporal distribution of the temperature is analytically determined by the heat equation. Explicit solutions of this parabolic partial differential equation only exist for specific cases such as flat surfaces and specific beam profiles.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, the author derives an explicit function that allows the calculation of the spatio-temporal temperature for the case of a tube irradiated by a laser beam. For this purpose, the tube geometry is transformed on that of an infinite extended slab. The heat source is transformed by the method of images to be periodically placed on the slab. Furthermore, the derived formula concerns even a rotation of the tube around the longitudinal axis.

Findings

From the calculations, the strong decrease in maximum temperatures and the spatio-temporal modulation could quantitatively be shown. For high rotation speeds, the modulation shows a falling tendency and the temperature approaches an asymptotic evolution. For this spatio-temporal evolution, the author found also an analytical expression allowing a relatively easy and fast calculation formula.

Originality/value

The analytical solutions were used for further calculations concerning the thermal ignition of encased explosives in rotating tubes. With the help of the formulas, the ignition times over a broad parameter range were determined.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 29 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 6 December 2020

Atilla Savaş

The gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) process is a widely used process that produces quality weldments. But the high heat generation from the GTAW arc can cause extreme temperatures…

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Purpose

The gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) process is a widely used process that produces quality weldments. But the high heat generation from the GTAW arc can cause extreme temperatures as high as 20,000°C. The residual stresses and deformations are high accordingly. One of the methods for decreasing residual stresses and deformations is to change the welding pattern. In the literature, there are not so many examples of modeling dealing with welding patterns. This paper aims to investigate the influence of welding patterns on the deformations.

Design/methodology/approach

In this work, back-stepping patterns and partitioning of the weld line were investigated and the distortions and residual stresses were calculated. By doing this, temperature-dependent thermophysical and thermo-mechanical material properties were used. The temperature distribution and deformation from experiments with the same welding conditions were used for validation purposes.

Findings

Seven different welding patterns were analyzed. There is only one pattern with a single partition. There are three patterns investigated for both two and three partitioned weldings. The minimum deformation and the optimum residual stress combination is obtained for the last pattern, which is a three partitioned and diverging pattern.

Originality/value

The most important aspect of this paper is that it deals with welding patterns, which is not much studied beforehand. The other important thing is that the structural part and the thermal part of the simulation were coupled mutually and validated according to experiments.

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World Journal of Engineering, vol. 18 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1708-5284

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Article
Publication date: 1 May 1999

Jean‐Vincent Daurelle, René Occelli and Marc Jaeger

The radiation conduction coupling leads to particular problems due to computation time and high heat fluxes. Because of the hemispheric nature of the radiation, it is difficult to…

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The radiation conduction coupling leads to particular problems due to computation time and high heat fluxes. Because of the hemispheric nature of the radiation, it is difficult to take into account symmetric or periodic conditions for the reduction of the modelled domain. We developed a finite element model of radiative heat transfers between grey diffuse surfaces with a nonparticipating medium with periodic or symmetric boundary conditions. The approaches used to decrease the computation time allowed the modelling of moving radiative surfaces. We introduced this model into a finite element convection diffusion code in order to simulate heat transfers in an electrical rotating engine. The main originality of this study lies in the use of periodic radiative conditions with moving surfaces and in the use of a method which is not based on the isothermal approximation.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 9 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 5 October 2010

Florencia Edith Wiria, Kah Fai Leong and Chee Kai Chua

Tissue engineering (TE) involves biological, medical and engineering expertise and a current engineering challenge is to provide good TE scaffolds. These highly porous 3D…

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Purpose

Tissue engineering (TE) involves biological, medical and engineering expertise and a current engineering challenge is to provide good TE scaffolds. These highly porous 3D scaffolds primarily serve as temporal holding devices for cells that facilitate structural and functional tissue unit formation of the newly transplanted cells. One method used successfully to produce scaffolds is that of rapid prototyping. Selective laser sintering (SLS) is one such versatile method that is able to process many types of polymeric materials and good stability of its products. The purpose of this paper is to present modeling of the heat transfer process, to understand the sintering phenomena that are experienced by powder particles in the SLS powder bed during the sintering process. With the understanding of sintering process obtained through the theoretical modeling, experimental process of biomaterials in SLS could be directed towards the appropriate sintering window, so as not to cause unintentional degradation to the biomaterials.

Design/methodology/approach

SLS uses a laser as a heat source to sinter parts. A theoretical study based on heat transfer phenomena during SLS process was carried out. The study identified the significant biomaterial and laser beam properties that were critical to the sintering result. The material properties were thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, surface reflectivity and absorption coefficient.

Findings

The influential laser beam properties were laser power and scan speed, which were machine parameters that can be controlled by users. The identification of the important parameters has ensured that favorable sintering conditions can be achieved.

Research limitations/implications

The selection of biopolymer influences the manner in which energy is absorbed by the powder bed during the SLS process. In this paper, the modeling and investigative work was validated by poly(vinyl alcohol) which is a biomaterial that has been used for many biomedical and pharmaceutical purposes.

Practical implications

The paper can be the foundation for extension to other types of biomaterials including biopolymers, bioceramics and biocomposites.

Originality/value

The formulation of the theory for heat transfer phenomena during the SLS process is of significant value to any studies in using SLS for biomedical applications.

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Rapid Prototyping Journal, vol. 16 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2546

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Publication date: 5 October 2010

A.K. Singh and Regalla Srinivasa Prakash

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the transient three‐dimensional temperature distribution for a laser sintered duraform fine polyamide part by a moving Gaussian laser…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the transient three‐dimensional temperature distribution for a laser sintered duraform fine polyamide part by a moving Gaussian laser beam. The primary objective of the present paper is to develop computationally efficient numerical simulation technique with the commercially available finite element software domain for the accurate prediction of the temperature history and heat‐affected zones of the laser sintered parts so as to finally obtain the density of the sintered sample.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper proposes a mathematical model of scanning by moving laser beam and sintering sub‐model. Based on the mathematical models, a simulation model was developed by using author written subroutines in ANSYS® 11.0, a general purpose finite element software. The simulation model was then run at experimental designed points using two‐level factorial design of experiments (DOE) approach. The data thus generated were used to predict the equation for the density of sintered part in terms of process parameters using Design Expert software in order to analyse the designed experiments.

Findings

Laser power and scan spacing were found to be significant parameters affecting the part density. Amongst the interaction terms, significant effect of laser power was found on the part density at the lower settings of the scan velocity. Temperature‐time plots were generated to study the transient temperature distribution for the sintering process and with further applicability to study the thermal stresses.

Research limitations/implications

The simulation model hence developed can be used for only simple part geometries and cannot be generalised for any complex geometry.

Originality/value

The paper presents a simulation model which is integrated with a DOE approach so as to develop a robust as well as simple and fast approach for the optimization of quality objective.

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Rapid Prototyping Journal, vol. 16 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2546

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Publication date: 14 October 2022

Zhe Liu, Hao Wei, Li Chen, Haihang Cui and Bohua Sun

The purpose of this study is to establish an effective numerical simulation method to describe the flow pattern and optimize the strategy of noncontact mixing induced by…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to establish an effective numerical simulation method to describe the flow pattern and optimize the strategy of noncontact mixing induced by alternating Gaussian light inside a nanofluid droplet and analyzing the influencing factors and flow mechanism of fluid mixing inside a droplet.

Design/methodology/approach

First, the heat converted by the alternating incident Gaussian light acting on the nanoparticles was considered as the bulk heat source distribution, and the equilibrium equation between the surface tension and the viscous force at the upper boundary force was established; then, the numerical simulation methods for multiple-physical-field coupling was established, and the mixing index was used to quantify the mixing degree inside a droplet. The effects of the incident position of alternating Gaussian light and the height of the droplet on the mixing characteristics inside a droplet were studied. Finally, the nondimensional Marangoni number was used to reveal the flow mechanism of the internal mixing of the droplet.

Findings

Noncontact alternating Gaussian light can induce asymmetric vortex motion inside a nanofluid droplet. The incident position of alternating Gaussian light is a significant factor affecting the mixing degree in the droplet. In addition, the heat transfer caused by the surface tension gradient promotes the convection effect, which significantly enhances the mixing of the fluid in the droplet.

Originality/value

This study demonstrates the possibility of the chaotic mixing phenomenon induced by noncontact Gaussian light that occurs within a tiny droplet and provides a feasible method to achieve efficient mixing inside droplets at the microscale.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 33 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Publication date: 8 May 2018

Kuanfang He, Wei Lu, Xiangnan Liu, Siwen Xiao and Xuejun Li

This paper aims to study acoustic emission (AE) propagation characteristics by a crack under a moving heat source, which mainly provides theoretical basis and method for the…

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Purpose

This paper aims to study acoustic emission (AE) propagation characteristics by a crack under a moving heat source, which mainly provides theoretical basis and method for the actual crack detection during welding process.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper studied the AE characteristics in welding using thermoelastic theory, which investigates the dynamical displacement field caused by a crack and the welding heating effect. In the calculation model, the crack initiation and extension are represented by moment tensor as the AE source, and the welding heat source is the Gauss heat flux distribution. The extended finite element method (XFEM) is implemented to calculate and solve the AE response of a thermoelastic plate with a crack during the welding heating effect. The wavelet transform is applied to the time–frequency analysis of the AE signals.

Findings

The paper provides insights about the changing rule of the acoustic radiation patterns influenced by the heating effect of the moving heat source and the AE signal characteristics in thermoelastic plate by different crack lengths and depths. It reveals that the time–frequency characteristics of the AE signals from the simulation are in good agreement with the theoretical ones. The energy ratio of the antisymmetric mode A0 to symmetric mode S0 is a valuable quantitative inductor to estimate the crack depth with a certain regularity.

Research limitations/implications

This paper mainly discusses the application of XFEM to calculate and analyze thermoelastic problems, and has presented few cases based on a specified configuration. Further work will focus on the calculation and analysis under different plate configurations and conditions, which is to obtain more interesting and general conclusions for guiding practice.

Originality/value

The paper is a successful application of XFEM to solve the problem of AE response of a crack in the dynamic welding inhomogeneous heating effect. The paper provides an effective way to obtain the AE signal characteristics in monitoring the welding crack.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 35 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Publication date: 7 September 2022

Zhe Liu, Zexiong Yu, Leilei Wang, Li Chen, Haihang Cui and Bohua Sun

The purpose of this study is to use a weak light source with spatial distribution to realize light-driven fluid by adding high-absorbing nanoparticles to the droplets, thereby…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to use a weak light source with spatial distribution to realize light-driven fluid by adding high-absorbing nanoparticles to the droplets, thereby replacing a highly focused strong linear light source acting on pure droplets.

Design/methodology/approach

First, Fe3O4 nanoparticles with high light response characteristics were added to the droplets to prepare nanofluid droplets, and through the Gaussian light-driven flow experiment, the Marangoni effect inside a nanofluid droplet was studied, which can produce the surface tension gradient on the air/liquid interface and induce the vortex motion inside a droplet. Then, the numerical simulation method of multiphysics field coupling was used to study the effects of droplet height and Gaussian light distribution on the flow characteristics inside a droplet.

Findings

Nanoparticles can significantly enhance the light absorption, so that the Gaussian light is enough to drive the flow, and the formation of vortex can be regulated by light distribution. The multiphysics field coupling model can accurately describe this problem.

Originality/value

This study is helpful to understand the flow behavior and heat transfer phenomenon in optical microfluidic systems, and provides a feasible way to construct the rapid flow inside a tiny droplet by light.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 33 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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