I have seen element death implemented by lowering Young's Modulus but I don't think that would work for me.
I have a layer of material, which represents a powder. A laser beam (modeled as a volumetric heat source) is moved over the length of the powder layer. From this, the powder is melted and solidified as it cools back down. I modeled the layer as a fluid with a temperature dependent dynamic viscosity. This way it can behave as a fluid when it is above melting temp, and a solid when its below melting temp. However there is one more effect that I can't figure out how to model.
As the powder is melted, a melt pool forms, and due to the surface tension of the air/melt interface the pool becomes rounded into a half cylinder shape. I want to kill the elements outside the meltpool as the laser has passed the plane they lie in. By kill I guess I mean replace with air. Is there a way to do this?
I have a layer of material, which represents a powder. A laser beam (modeled as a volumetric heat source) is moved over the length of the powder layer. From this, the powder is melted and solidified as it cools back down. I modeled the layer as a fluid with a temperature dependent dynamic viscosity. This way it can behave as a fluid when it is above melting temp, and a solid when its below melting temp. However there is one more effect that I can't figure out how to model.
As the powder is melted, a melt pool forms, and due to the surface tension of the air/melt interface the pool becomes rounded into a half cylinder shape. I want to kill the elements outside the meltpool as the laser has passed the plane they lie in. By kill I guess I mean replace with air. Is there a way to do this?