{"id":368770,"date":"2024-05-27T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/laser-cladding-in-fluent\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:39:00","slug":"laser-cladding-in-fluent","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/laser-cladding-in-fluent\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser cladding in FLUENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi!! I am trying to model laser cladding in FLUENT. I have designed the system (shown in the image below). It consists of a base substrate surrounded by an inert gas atmosphere from above.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/27-05-2024-1716830847-img3.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>The metal deposition will take place over the substrate as the laser creates a melt pool. The continuity equation has an additional mass source term as shown in the image below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/27-05-2024-1716830942-img1.PNG\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>As I understand, the mass source term will be added under cell zone conditions by changing phase to metal where options for mass source term comes. Please correct me if I am wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Next,&nbsp; I need to deposit metal in the form of powder. This is done through injecting powder using DPM as given in the excerpt taken from a published result.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/27-05-2024-1716831338-img2.PNG\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>How to add this source term for the force? Do I use DEFINE_SOURCE or DEFINE_DPM_SOURCE?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Any help is much appreciated. Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-368770","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-added-mass-1","topic-tag-define-source","topic-tag-dpm","topic-tag-laser-cladding-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["167859"],"_bbp_author_ip":["184.24.96.177"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["721"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["368770"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","167859"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["370807"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["370807"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-07-05 17:05:28"]},"test":"pawan"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/368770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/368770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}