Optimal cooling design in injection moulding process-A new approach based on morphological surfaces

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 170-178

  Agazzi, Alban ^b   Sobotka, Vincent ^a   Legoff, Ronan ^b   Jarny, Yvon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b Pôle Européen de Plasturgie ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Conformal cooling; Cooling channels; Injection moulding process; Inverse method; Morphological analysis; Optimization; Transient heat transfer

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHMS; COOLING CHANNELS; FLUID TEMPERATURES; INDUSTRIAL PARTS; INJECTION PROCESS; INVERSE METHODS; ISOTHERMAL SURFACES; LAGRANGIAN TECHNIQUES; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MOULD DESIGN; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL COOLING; PRODUCTION RATES; TRANSIENT HEAT TRANSFER;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; INJECTION MOLDING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MOLDS; OPTIMIZATION;

COOLING;

EID: 84871376672     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.11.019     Document Type: Article

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