Numerical Simulation of Injection Molding Cooling Process Based on 3D Surface Model

The design of the cooling system of injection molds directly affects both productivity and the quality of the final part. Using the cooling process CAE system to instruct the mold design, the efficiency and quality of design can be improved greatly. At the same time, it is helpful to confirm the cooling system structure and optimize the process conditions. In this paper, the 3D surface model of mold cavity is used to replace the middle-plane model in the simulation by Boundary Element Method, which break the bottleneck of the application of the injection molding simulation softwares base on the middle-plane model. With the improvements of this paper, a practical and commercial simulation software of injection molding cooling process named as HsCAE3D6.0 is developed.

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF 3-D TURBULENT FLOWS OVER DREDGED TRENCHES

A 3- D free surface flow in open channels based on the Reynolds equations with the k-ε turbulence closure model is presented in this paper. Insted of the 'rigid lid' approximation, the solution of the free surface equation is implemented in the velocity-pressure iterative procedure on the basis of the conventional SIMPLE method. This model was used to compute the flow in rectangular channels with trenches dredged across the bottom. The velocity, eddy viscosity coefficient, turbulent shear stress, turbulent kinetic energy and elevation of the free surface can be obtained. The computed results are in good agreement with previous experimental data.

A clipping algorithm for real-scene 3D models

The development of unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)oblique photogrammetric technology provides a good foundation for the rapid construction of large-scale and high-definition real-scene 3D models.However,due to the limitations of the modeling process,irrelevant feature data cannot be eliminated in the modeling stage.The built models contain irrelevant features and model distortions caused by errors.At present,most existing clipping algorithms cannot effectively clip real-scene 3D models that are organized as a whole or with levels of detail(LODs).Therefore,this paper proposes a novel algorithm for clipping real-scene 3D models from any perspective based on clipping boundary lines thatfit the surfaces of the models.The results of the clipping experiments for 3D models constructed with oblique UAV images show that this algorithm can effectively clip any part of the 3D models,that the clipping results of each level model closelyfit the corresponding clipping boundary lines,and that the accuracy of the clipping results is very high.Additionally,the time complexity of the algorithm is O(n^(2)).In conclusion,the algorithm proposed in this paper provides correct and effective clipping results for real-scene 3D models with LODs that are constructed with photogrammetric or 3D laser scanning data.