Cooling of Manufactured Parts

Cooling Equipment Design
A Combination of Analysis Techniques is Used to Develop an Optimized Cooling Design
ASC worked with Ford Motor Company to develop a new manufacturing process for hot forged connecting rods. In order to avoid secondary heat treating operations, the cooldown rate of the newly forged parts had to meet specific criteria. A combination of techniques was used to meet this goal.	Lumped-capacity analyses were used to define the required convection cooling rate, and CFD analyses were used to design the cooling equipment. The cooling concept was verified through field testing with a prototype cooling device.

Lumped Capacity Analysis to Determine Effect of Convection Heat Transfer Rate on Cooldown Time and Cooling Rate at Critical Temperature

Simulation of Impingement Cooling of Connecting Rod

Connecting Rod Cooling Test Fixture

Hot Forged Connecting Rods in Cooling Enclosure

CFD Solves Forge-Cooling Problem

Authors: Jeffrey D. Franklin, and Andrew L. Banka

Published March 2003 in Industrial Heating

Computational fluid dynamics can effectively shorten the time to achieve optimum design in a wide range of thermal-process applications by simulating many different scenarios.

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