Simulation of mould filling process using smoothed particle hydrodynamics
(School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China)
Abstract: The implementation of high pressure die casting (HPDC) filling process modeling based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) was discussed. A new treatment of inlet boundary was established by discriminating fluid particles from inlet particles. The roles of artificial viscosity and moving least squares method in the present model were compared in the handling pressure oscillation. The final model was substantiated by simulating filling process in HPDC in both two and three dimensions. The simulated results from SPH and finite difference method (FDM) were compared with the experiments. The results show the former is in a better agreement with experiments. It demonstrates the efficiency and precision of this SPH model in describing flow pattern in filling process.
Key words: high pressure die casting (HPDC); smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH); filling process; moving least squares method