1. 1 Decast Project data Title: Enhanced design environment for industrial casting processes on parallel computing platforms Project type: Esprit, EU Reference: Esprit 28144 Period: 01/09/1998 – 28/02/2001 Collaborators: Orlando Soto, Herbert Coppola-Owen

2. 2 Objectives To model mould filling processes: To determine the position of the front of the molten metal To predict conflicting regions To compute filling times To account for thermal effects

3. 3 Key numerical ingredients Tracking of free surfaces through level set techniques Stabilized finite element approximation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations Block-iterative coupling with temperature

4. 4 Results I

5. 5 Results II

6. 6 Results III

7. 7 Results IV

8. 8 Results V

9. 9 Results VI