1. 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-2000-00417 Period: 01/02/2001 - 31/01/2004 Collaborators: Guillaume Houzeaux

2. 2 Objectives To propose a mathematical model for lost foam casting To develop a numerical method to approximate it

3. 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. 4 Results