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D.H. Lammlein PhD Dissertation - Vanderbilt University

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Figure 123: Weld moment was a better indicator of penetration depth for the conical tool<br />

and a torque based control method was used in the experiment to maintain penetration<br />

depth.<br />

Fluent CFD Model<br />

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was made for the tool used in the<br />

supported experiment and the tool used in the unsupported experiment. The Eulerian,<br />

finite volume, CFD solver, Ansys FLUENT was used with the implicit formulation. The<br />

weld material viscosity function was set by user-defined function and defined according<br />

to the visco-plastic model used by Sheppard and Wright [29,30]. Fluent separates the<br />

weld interface into a surface and shadow surface. Heat energy was input at the weld<br />

interface into the material as defined by a user-defined function which applied heat<br />

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