Simulation Quartz Glass Sagging

Animation quartz glass sagging in NOGRID CFD software

Figure 1: Animation quartz glass sagging

The simulation of quartz glass sagging can perfectly be performed with our CFD software NOGRID points. Fused Silica (SiO2) is a synthetic molten, amorphous quartz glass. Quartz glass has an extraordinarily high optical transmissivity for ultraviolet light. Due to its low coefficient of thermal expansion, quartz glass can withstand very high operating temperatures. The very good UV-light transparency of quartz glass cannot be outperformed by any other industrial glass material. Quartz glass components and fused silica optics are made of large silica glass blocks, called quartz glass "boules". This raw fused quartz glass material can be sawn, ground, polished and shaped according to customers specifications.

Here we present a simulation, computed by our meshless CFD software NOGRID points, where a quartz glass cylinder is formed in an oven under its dead weight.

Quartz glass is most commonly heated in an oven and 'sagging' it over a form or into a mold. The glass is heated up slowly to avoid thermal shock. Approximately at the sagging temperature the quartz glass will begin to soften and appear glossy. Depending on the required process time sagging occurs at 100 °C to 300 °C above the sagging temperature. Once the quartz glass has sagged to the final state or the quartz glass has achieved the desired form the heat is quickly vented and the temperature is reduced to prevent further movement of the quartz glass and then it is stabilized at its respective annealing temperature and annealed.

It is also possible to simulate a forming process using different tools to accelerate the forming time.

NOGRID unites abilities to handle free surface flow and moving parts in the domain and allows the simulation of any conceivable geometry and operation modes such as

computation is in full 3D solving complete Navier-Stokes-Equations
easy and intuitive setup
free definable material properties by equations or curves also for non-Newtonian fluids
evaluation of chemical reactions and corresponding heat source terms
open or closed domains including inflow and outflow areas (non-batch mode)
moving of parts

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Particular strengths of NOGRID's fluid flow CFD software are the rapid preprocessing (no fluid grid needs to be generated, only the boundary mesh, inner finite points are generated automatically depending on User setting initially and during computation), and the outstandingly short computation time even for complicated cavities.

As you can see in the image below, the boundary of the geometry still requires a mesh to allow the interior finite points to detect the boundary. The boundary must therefore be meshed and the finite points inside are automatically generated during the simulation controlled by User specifications.

Easy and fast modelling: Build geometry, mesh boundary, setup the case and start computation

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