An anisotropic enhanced thermal conductivity approach for modelling laser melt pools

26th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics, ICALEO 2007 - Congress Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Safdar, Shakeel ^a   Pinkerton, Andrew J ^a   Moat, Richard ^a   Li, Lin ^a   Sheikh, Mohammed A ^a   Preuss, Michael ^a   Withers, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enhanced thermal conductivity; Finite element analysis; Laser; Melt pool

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; LAKES; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELS; ENHANCED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; LASER MELTING; MARANGONI FLOWS; MELT POOL; MELT POOL SIZE; POOL PROFILE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 85064316034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2351/1.5061002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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