TY - CONF A1 - Artinov, Antoni A1 - Bachmann, Marcel A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Transient process simulation of heat transfer in laser beam welding with an equivalent heat source N2 - A multi-physics modelling framework developed for the prediction of the three-dimensional transient temperature field of the laser welding process is presented. The numerical model consists of two studies. In the first study, a steady-state CFD process simulation of full-penetration keyhole laser beam welding was performed. Considering the effects of latent heat, natural and thermo-capillary convection and temperature-dependent material properties up to evaporation temperature the local weld pool geometry and temperature field were obtained. These results were used in the second subsequent study, as an equivalent volumetric heat source, by the prediction of the transient thermal cycle during and after fusion welding. Here the energy input and the movement of the heat source were realized by a novel technique, making use of pointwise constraints and a moving mesh provided with helper lines and additional remeshing condition. The numerically calculated results were compared to experimentally observed weld pool shapes and time-temperature curves and show a very good agreement. T2 - COMSOL Conference CY - Rotterdam, The Netherlands DA - 18.10.2017 KW - High power laser beam welding KW - Equivalent volumetric heat source KW - Transient heat transfer KW - Moving mesh KW - Pointwise constraints PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42607 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -