CONTENTS

Chapters

Titles
CONTENTS
List of Tables
List of Figures
NOMENCLATURE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction to casting
1.2 Process Description
1.3
Moulding of Aluminium Casting
1.4 Sand Casting
1.5 Moulding Sands
1.6 Gating and Risering of Aluminium
1.7 Risering
1.8 Advantages of Casting
1.9 Six basic steps of casting
1.10 Casting Terminology
1.11 The Solidification Process

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LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Literature survey

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METHODOLOGY AND NUMERICAL TECHNIQUE

3.1 Schematic of mould cavity
3.2 Material of mould employed
3.3 Equation governs the physical problem
3.4 Boundary conditions on the walls of mould cavity

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MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
4.1 Numerical Technique
4.2 Expansion of Taylors Series
4.3 Forward Scheme
4.4 Backward Scheme
4.5 Central Scheme
4.6 Graphical representation
4.7 Explicit scheme
4.8 Implicit Scheme
4.9 Introduction to MATLAB
4.10 MATLAB environment
4.10.1 Command window
4.10.2 Workspace
4.10.3 Command history
4.10.1 Current folder

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RESULT AND DISCUSSION

5.1 Grid validation
5.2 Stability condition
5.3 Result and discussion

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5.4
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Cooling curve of Al 6061 in green sand mould

Temperature distribution in casting and sand mould during
solidification for number of iteration
Temperature distributions in casting and sand mould
during solidification for different grid-sizes

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CONCLUSION
6.1
Conclusion

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REFERENCES
APPENDIX
MATLAB code for unsteady case
MATLAB code for steady case
CERTIFICATES AND RESEARCH PAPERS

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List of Tables
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Title
Physical properties of Al and sand
First order partial derivative term and their Taylor series
expansion
Second order partial derivative term and their Taylor series
expansion
MATLAB Toolbox
MATLAB arithmetic operators
MATLAB flow controls

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List of Figures
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Schematic of mould cavity
Grid element layout
Environment of MATLAB
Fig.4. Cooling curve of Aluminium in green sand mould
Figure 5 Temperature distribution in casting and sand
mould during solidification for number of iteration (a) 50
Figure 5 Temperature distribution in casting and sand
mould during solidification for number of iteration (b) 100
Figure 5 Temperature distribution in casting and sand
mould during solidification for number of iteration (c) 150
Figure 6 Temperature distribution in casting and sand
mould during solidification (Steady state)

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Nomenclature
L

Length of the Cavity (x-direction)

Height of the Cavity (y-direction)

Temperature

Time

Thermal Conductivity

hf

Latent heat of fusion

Thermal Diffusivity

Density

Cp

Specific heat

Reference Value

Heat flux

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