Sina Alavi, Mohammad Passandideh-Fard*
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.2, No.2, pp. 1-9, 2011, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v2.2.3007
Abstract In this paper, a numerical study is performed to investigate the effects of thermal shrinkage on the deposition of molten particles on a substrate in a
thermal spray process using the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method. Thermal shrinkage is a phenomenon caused by the variation of density during
cooling and solidification of a molten metal. The Navier-Stokes equations along with the energy equation including phase change are solved using a
2D/axisymmetric mesh. The VOF method is used to track the free surface of molten particles, and an enthalpy-porosity formulation is used to model
solidification. For the normal More >
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