Results may be imported and viewed in ParaView. Figure 8.1 shows the results of each of the 2 substrate thermal simulations and Figures 8.2 shows the results of each of the 2 powder sintering thermal simulations, each during the simulation of the second laser scan.
The substrate heating simulations both model the thermal behavior during moving heat source based pre-heating. Using the fixed autogenerated mesh shown in Figure 8.1(a) produces a fine mesh in the regions of heating. The adaptive mesh shows only fine mesh around the heat source at the individual time increment in Figure 8.1(b).
Powder sintering without modeling the powder is shown in Figure 8.2(a) while the simulation including the powder is shown in Figure 8.2(b).
Figure 8.1 Thermal simulation of substrate heating, (a) t.in
(b) tadpm.in
Figure 8.2 Thermal simulation of powder sintering, (a) tdirect.in
(b) tddmp.in