1 Foamcast Project data Title: Shortening lead times and improving quality by innovative upgradings of the lost foam casting process Project type: GROWTH project of the EU Reference: G1RD-CT Period: 01/02/ /01/2004 Collaborators: Guillaume Houzeaux
2 Objectives To propose a mathematical model for lost foam casting To develop a numerical method to approximate it
3 Key numerical ingredients Level set method to track the interface Domain decomposition thermal coupling Fixed-mesh ALE method to cope with the domain deformation Stabilized finite element methods (flow equations, heat equation, level set transport)
4 Results