Plasma spray forming shows overwhelming advantages in rapid fabricating parts and moulds. The coating microstructure is strongly dependent on the splat morphology and inter-splat contact nature. Therefore,it is necess...Plasma spray forming shows overwhelming advantages in rapid fabricating parts and moulds. The coating microstructure is strongly dependent on the splat morphology and inter-splat contact nature. Therefore,it is necessary to investigate the splat formation mechanism in order to analyze the coating properties. A dynamical process of a single fully molten droplet impacting onto a smooth surface was investigated. At the same time,the interaction between the two molten droplets in the horizontal and vertical directions was also simulated. Finally,the simulations of impact of a molten droplet on an inclined plane and a sharp edge were presented. It is concluded that the relative distance of the two droplets strongly influences the dynamics of the two droplets interaction. The various surface conditions have direct effects on the dynamics of splat formation. When a droplet impacts onto an inclined surface and a sharp edge,the splat morphology changes obviously and the phenomenon of break up is observed.展开更多
Plasma sprayed coatings are built up by the accumulation of splats formed by the impacting,spreading and solidifying of molten droplets on the substrate.A three-dimensional computational model including heat transfer ...Plasma sprayed coatings are built up by the accumulation of splats formed by the impacting,spreading and solidifying of molten droplets on the substrate.A three-dimensional computational model including heat transfer and solidification is established to simulate the formation process of a single splat using the computational fluid dynamics(CFD)software,FLUENT.The fluid flow and energy equations are discretized and solved according to typical finite volume method on an unstructured grid.A volume of fluid(VOF)tracking algorithm is used to track the droplet flow with free surface.In order to understand the splat formation mechanism,the process of splat formation caused by impacting and spreading of a molten nickel droplet on a polished mild steel surface is simulated.On this basis,the simulations of impact of a molten droplet on substrate with different conditions including the surface morphology,thermal conductivity,initial temperature of the substrate and the thermal contact resistance are presented.The results clearly show the effect of those parameters on the shape of the final splat and splash behaviors.展开更多
基金Project (50675072) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of Chinaprojects (E0610018, 20062178) supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province and Liaoning Province, China, respectively
文摘Plasma spray forming shows overwhelming advantages in rapid fabricating parts and moulds. The coating microstructure is strongly dependent on the splat morphology and inter-splat contact nature. Therefore,it is necessary to investigate the splat formation mechanism in order to analyze the coating properties. A dynamical process of a single fully molten droplet impacting onto a smooth surface was investigated. At the same time,the interaction between the two molten droplets in the horizontal and vertical directions was also simulated. Finally,the simulations of impact of a molten droplet on an inclined plane and a sharp edge were presented. It is concluded that the relative distance of the two droplets strongly influences the dynamics of the two droplets interaction. The various surface conditions have direct effects on the dynamics of splat formation. When a droplet impacts onto an inclined surface and a sharp edge,the splat morphology changes obviously and the phenomenon of break up is observed.
文摘Plasma sprayed coatings are built up by the accumulation of splats formed by the impacting,spreading and solidifying of molten droplets on the substrate.A three-dimensional computational model including heat transfer and solidification is established to simulate the formation process of a single splat using the computational fluid dynamics(CFD)software,FLUENT.The fluid flow and energy equations are discretized and solved according to typical finite volume method on an unstructured grid.A volume of fluid(VOF)tracking algorithm is used to track the droplet flow with free surface.In order to understand the splat formation mechanism,the process of splat formation caused by impacting and spreading of a molten nickel droplet on a polished mild steel surface is simulated.On this basis,the simulations of impact of a molten droplet on substrate with different conditions including the surface morphology,thermal conductivity,initial temperature of the substrate and the thermal contact resistance are presented.The results clearly show the effect of those parameters on the shape of the final splat and splash behaviors.
