CD-adapco Unveils STAR Cast v1.10

By DE Editors

CD-adapco and Access have released a new version of STAR-Cast, a simulation tool for industrial casting applications. STAR-Cast v1.10 provides what CD-adapco describes as a comprehensive and intuitive process for performing multiphase casting simulation (liquid, solid, gaseous), including conjugate heat transfer, a sharp resolution of the filling front, free-surface fragmentation, motion of trapped gas bubbles in melt, and natural convection in melt and gas.

STAR-Cast v1.10 includes the ability to simulate the action of a moving piston, facilitating the analysis of high-pressure die casting (HPDC)  processes. The piston can be actuated using either a specified velocity profile or controlled dynamically depending on the pressures predicted by the simulation, and includes full heat transfer modeling between the melt and the piston wall.

The solution also provides a tool for calculating the outer surface of the virtual shell in close correlation to the real shape of the mold in investment casting applications. The user-defined input parameter is the mean shell thickness. The growth and final thickness of the virtual mold are a function of local surface curvature, controlled by a full-suite of user configurable parameters.

STAR-Cast also provides investment casting misrun prediction, and a dedicated material database. The data stored in STAR-Cast mat are certified and qualified according to an internal documentation scheme. For every material included in STAR-Cast mat, all the data you need to run a casting process simulation successfully is provided. For each physical property, a dataset is indicated as recommended for a simulation. Searches for and retrieval of data stored in STAR-Cast mat is executed via the GUI.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.