Isothermal filling of an injection molding cavity simulated with the level set method

  • Authors:

  • Alfredo E. Varela

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela

  • Venue:
  • MOAS'07 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Proceedings of the 18th IASTED International Conference: modelling and simulation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

An application of the level set method along with a continuous reinitialization function for computing solutions to a simplified model of the cavity filling in injection molding of thermoplastics is presented. The process is assumed to be two-phase flow in two dimensions and isothermal. The Navier-Stokes and level set equations are solved using a linear viscosity model in terms of shear rate. The results indicate that the proposed methodology can improved and extend to three dimension non-isothermal cavities.