Front-loading method for laser processing of metallic materials with a digital mock-up system

Muramatsu, Toshiharu

A general-purpose three-dimensional thermohydraulics numerical simulation code SPLICE was developed at Japan Atomic Energy Agency and designed to deal with gas-liquid-solid consolidated incompressible viscous flows with a phase change process in various laser applications, such as welding, coating, cutting, etc. The result obtained from laser coating simulations is very encouraging in the sense that the SPLICE code would be used as one of efficient front-loading tools for related to the laser coating processes.