Local Simulation Input Files

4.4.1 Thermal analysis input file therm.in

*TITLE 
Moving adaptive mesh 
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# These are comment statements 
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*TRANSIENT 
0, 480 , 0.0001, 20., 0.0001, 0.25, 5, 900000 
# time [s] incrementation control 
# input the begin time, end time, inital time increment, 
# maximum allowable time increment, min allowable time increment, 
# time tolerance 
# maximum number of cutbacks per increment 
# maximum total number of increments allowed. 
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*ANTP 
2 
# 0: Steady state conduction 
# 2: Transient thermal analysis 
# 3: Eulerian analysis 
# 4: Quasi static incremental 
# degrees of freedom are 3 for mech. analysis & 1 for thermal 
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*SOLUTION PARAMETERS 
15, 1.d-4, 1.0e+20 
# max number of iterations, tolerance, max residual 
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*DDM! 
0,-12.7 
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# substrate top z coord, substrate bottom z coord, offset 
# time for layer activation 
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*GOLD 
0.40, 0.6, 1, 1, 1, 1, 
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# efficiency, bm, cm1, cm2, f1, f2 
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# axes used in heat source: 
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# a = laser radius 
# b = bm*a 
# c1= cm1*a 
# c2= cm2*a 
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# max of 40 values all tempeerature dependent values 
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*CONVECTION COEFFICIENTS 
.000010 0 
# Units: [W/((mm^2)-degC)], [degC] 
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*EVAP 
3000. 
# Units: [degC] 
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*AMBIENT TEMPERATURE 
25.0 
# Units: [degC] 
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*TAUT 
# Automatically adjust time steps according to laser radius 
# and speed. Time steps are set to 
# radius * tauto / velocity 
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*ADPM 
50 
# temperature tolerance for coarsening elements 
# Units: [degC] 
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*ADAPT 
4 
# Number of refinement levels for adaptive meshing. 
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*MATERIAL PROPERTIES 
# Inconel 718 substrate 
*MATID 
1 
*CONDUCTIVITY 
# Units: [W/(mm-degC)], [degC] 
11.4d-3, 20 
12.5d-3, 100 
14.0d-3, 300 
15.5d-3, 500 
21.5d-3, 700 
31.3d-3, 1350 
*DENSITY 
# Units: [kg/(mm^3)] 
8.146E-06 
*SPEC 
# Units: [J/(kg-degC)], [degC] 
427, 20 
441, 100 
481, 300 
521, 500 
561, 700 
601, 900 
691, 1350 
*LATENT HEAT 
# Units: [J/(kg], [degC], [degC] 
227e3, 1200, 1400 
*EMIS 
# Units [unitless], [degC] 
0.58 22 
*LSRP 
153, 0.08, 600, 0, 0.1, 20, 1, 11.5, 67, 3.2, 3.2 
#automatically generates the heat source path 
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*AUTM 
#automatically generates the mesh 
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*END

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