Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 524
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microstructural evolution; multiscale modeling; phase-field modeling; nuclear materials; advanced manufacturing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Material processing techniques govern the microstructure and properties of a material, which influences the material’s performance in engineering applications. Understanding the role of material processing conditions on the material behvaior is crucial for developing new materials and designing new components. Advanced manufacturing techniques have recently gained significant interest across various industries due to their ability to produce complex structures in a shorter time, facilitating faster material developments. These techniques have the potential to change the paradigm of new material and component designs for various engineering applications by producing new alloys and graded materials by facilitating innovative and hybrid component designs. Therefore, it is important to understand how the process conditions influence the material’s properties, and behavior. Numerical modeling approaches provide a cost-effective method to simulate different aspects of the manufacturing process and correlate the process conditions to the material’s microstructure, properties and performance. Recent advancements in numerical modeling techniques such as finite element, cellular automata, phase-field, computational fluid dynamics, level-set, finite volume, and GPU-based modeling have made the computational approaches more efficient.
This Special Issue will cover new findings on the numerical modeling of advanced material processing techniques and associated material evolution. Processes of interest include, but are not limited to, the directed energy deposition method, laser powder bed fusion method, advanced sintering techniques, diffusion bonding, joining of dissimilar materials, and laser welding. The goal is to present novel modeling approaches and new crucial findings to connect the role of material processing techniques to the final product. Manuscripts describing new modeling techniques for multiphysics and multiscale modeling simulating the manufacturing process at different length scales, microstructural evolution during the process, component builds, and new alloy development are highly welcome.
Dr. Sudipta Biswas
Dr. Wen Jiang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- modeling and simulation
- advanced manufacturing
- additive manufacturing
- sintering
- material evolution
- process modeling
- component modeling
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