New casting components with optimized cooling by modeling (NCCOCM)
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Project type
angewandte Forschung
Project start
04.09.2025
Project end
03.09.2028
Project status
laufend
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Description
Abstract
This project develops a controlled cooling method for bimetallic casting, using optimized airflow and geometry to improve quality, enable complex shapes, and access new markets.
Earlier simulations showed uneven cooling from impingement air and handling issues.
Kugler Bimetal SA tests an enclosed fan-based system, analysing design and flow in an annular ring gap to form a single solidification front from the center bottom, avoiding secondary fronts.
Vortex generators, swirl inducers, or narrowing increase turbulence and heat transfer, validated through Multiphysics simulations and experiments.
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Zero Emission
School
Hochschule für Technik und Umwelt FHNW
Institute
Institut für Thermo- und Fluid-Engineering
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Innosuisse
Project partner
Kugler Bimetal SA
HEPIA - Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève
Institut für Produkt- und Produktionsengineering, Hochschule für Technik und Umwelt FHNW
HEPIA - Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève
Institut für Produkt- und Produktionsengineering, Hochschule für Technik und Umwelt FHNW
Contracting authority
SAP reference
T326-0257-2
Keywords
Computational Engineering
Surrogate Model
Heat Transfer
Cooling
Surrogate Model
Heat Transfer
Cooling