Investigation of Marangoni convection with high-fidelity simulations for metal melt pool dynamics
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
The goal of this research is to investigate and characterize the dynamics of a molten metal pool through modeling and simulation. Two manufacturing processes are of interest, laser spot welding and selective laser melting. These are laser-based techniques for joining parts together and for building up parts. The laser power impacts the melt pool temperature and therefore the dynamics. Moreover, the metals used are often alloys, containing impurities, where the concentration of these impurities can have a large effect on surface tension and therefore influence the melt pool dynamics. The application space considered in this project is for laser spot welding as a case study, and is also relevant to 3D metal printing. The thermal evolution and fluid dynamics in a 2D metal block exposed to a Gaussian distributed laser source is numerically simulated using a high-order, fully-implicit code. Results are compared to published experimental data and other published numerical simulations for laser spot welding. Results confirm that unstable structures appear at higher laser powers with higher impurity concentrations compared to simulations with no impurities and lower laser powers.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; 13-SI-002
- OSTI ID:
- 1573160
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-TR-795922; 993730
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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