Review Circuit Results

In this task, you interpret four different circuit results.

1. Click Home > Results > Results.

2. Ensure just the Mold Tetras, and Channel layers are on. All other layers are off.

3. Rotate, pan, and zoom as necessary to see the circuit results being displayed.

4. Click Temperature, circuit coolant (averaged) in the study tasks list.

   The increase in temperature is best when less than 2-3 C. The core is slightly more than the guideline.

   

5. Click Circuit Reynolds Number.

   The results are exactly 10,000 Reynolds number because this value was used as input for calculating flow rate.

6. Click Circuit flow rate.

   The flow rate required to achieve 10,000 Reynolds number is just over 3 l/min. This flow rate is not high, so the mold is not likely to be flow rate limited.

7. Click Temperature, mold-circuit interface (averaged).

   This result is best when less more than 5C above the coolant inlet. There are places in the core that is more than this desired value.

   

Improve these results by:

• A higher coolant flow rate.
• More cooling channels/ circuits.
• A longer cycle time.

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