Flow

Moldex3D/Shell-Flow provides a simulation tool to analyze the filling process for thin-walled parts. It helps users to investigate all factors in filling process from material choice, runner layout, wall thickness design, and processing conditions, etc.

Moldex3D/Shell-Flow can provide the scientific results to understand what/where/how the problems happen in cavity-filling phase so as to further optimize the design.

Capabilities
Moldex3D/Shell-Flow allows you to

	Predict the melt front advancement to see how the mold fills
	Predict the injection pressure and evaluate the requirement of clamping force
	Predict weld line locations to minimize or eliminate them
	Predict air trap locations
	Evaluate the runner layout and size to minimize the volume of material and achieve runner balancing
	Optimize the gate location and size to minimize weld lines and achieve balanced filling
	Optimize process conditions in filling stage, such as injection time, melt temperature, ram speed profile, etc
	Simulate filling process for multi-cavity molds or family molds
	Simulate multi-component molding process, including insert molding and multi-shot sequential molding (Moldex3D/Shell-MCM module is required)

Features

	Full information provided for Flow Analysis
	Melt front time
	Melt front temperature
	Pressure
	Central temperature
	Average temperature
	Bulk temperature
	Shear stress
	Shear rate
	Volumetric shrinkage
	Density
	Frozen layer ratio
	Viscous heating temperature
	Velocity vector
	Sprue pressure history
	Clamping force prediction
	Weld-lines prediction
	Air trap location prediction
	Runner design evaluation
	Runner layout
	Runner size
	Runner type
	Gate design evaluation
	Gate location
	Gate type
	Gate size
	Automatic valve gate control
	Timing control
	Flow front control
	Automatic ram profile optimization