Publication detail

Experimental and Numerical Investigations into Heat Transfer Using a Jet Cooler in High-Pressure Die Casting

BOHÁČEK, J. MRÁZ, K. KRUTIŠ, V. KAŇA, V. VAKHRUSHEV, A. KARIMI-SIBAKI, E. KHARICHA, A.

English title

Experimental and Numerical Investigations into Heat Transfer Using a Jet Cooler in High-Pressure Die Casting

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

en

Original abstract

During high-pressure die casting, a significant amount of heat is dissipated via the liquid-cooled channels in the die. The jet cooler, also known as the die insert or bubbler, is one of the most commonly used cooling methods. Nowadays, foundries casting engineered products rely on numerical simulations using commercial software to determine cooling efficiency, which requires precise input data. However, the literature lacks sufficient investigations to describe the spatial distribution of the heat transfer coefficient in the jet cooler. In this study, we propose a solver using the open-source CFD package OpenFOAM and free library for nonlinear optimization NLopt for the inverse heat conduction problem that returns the desired distribution of the heat transfer coefficient. The experimental temperature measurements using multiple thermocouples are considered the input data. The robustness, efficiency, and accuracy of the model are rigorously tested and confirmed. Additionally, temperature measurements of the real jet cooler are presented.

English abstract

During high-pressure die casting, a significant amount of heat is dissipated via the liquid-cooled channels in the die. The jet cooler, also known as the die insert or bubbler, is one of the most commonly used cooling methods. Nowadays, foundries casting engineered products rely on numerical simulations using commercial software to determine cooling efficiency, which requires precise input data. However, the literature lacks sufficient investigations to describe the spatial distribution of the heat transfer coefficient in the jet cooler. In this study, we propose a solver using the open-source CFD package OpenFOAM and free library for nonlinear optimization NLopt for the inverse heat conduction problem that returns the desired distribution of the heat transfer coefficient. The experimental temperature measurements using multiple thermocouples are considered the input data. The robustness, efficiency, and accuracy of the model are rigorously tested and confirmed. Additionally, temperature measurements of the real jet cooler are presented.

Keywords in English

die casting; jet cooling; jet cooler; bubbler; bayonet; die insert; OpenFOAM; NLopt; IHCP; concave surface; spherical surface

Released

28.11.2023

Publisher

MDPI

Location

ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND

ISSN

2504-4494

Volume

7

Number

6

Pages from–to

1–14

Pages count

14

BIBTEX


@article{BUT185654,
  author="Jan {Boháček} and Petr {Dyntera} and Kryštof {Mráz} and Vladimír {Krutiš} and Václav {Kaňa} and Alexander {Vakhrushev} and Ebrahim {Karimi-Sibaki} and Abdellah {Kharicha},
  title="Experimental and Numerical Investigations into Heat Transfer Using a Jet Cooler in High-Pressure Die Casting",
  year="2023",
  volume="7",
  number="6",
  month="November",
  pages="1--14",
  publisher="MDPI  ",
  address="ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND",
  issn="2504-4494"
}