Arena-flow 7.3 contains many analysis and ease-of-use enhancements, which enable designers and engineers to gain more insight into core-making behavior than ever before. At the same time, the new ease-of-use features take much of the workload off the user and put that onto the software instead, thereby reducing the time-required to get real answers to time-critical, core-making and tooling-design questions. Core making can be challenging. Both sand and air flow, within the tooling, are essential for making a good core. Arena-flow is not just a process model, but rather a fundamental approach to computing the sand flow and air flow physics of core making. Thus, it is not applicable to only one process, but has been successfully applied to a variety of core making technologies. Learn how you can apply the Arena-flow Sand Core Engineering Technology for your process: [photo] Cold-Box If you're utilizing a cold-box process, you're probably very interested in productivity. Arena-flow has interfaces specifically designed to enable the cold-box foundry to optimize their processes resulting in minimal scrap, binder loadings, amine or SO2 usage and cycle times. Cold-box sand core engineering physical models include: air flow modeling transient amine curing transient SO2 curing core fill and miss-fill prediction core density variations tool wear prediction resin wipe-off prediction sand particle size distribution multiple sand types, and mixtures sand flowability (binder effects) discrete vent models magazine performance and rat-holing [photo] Shell Sand If you're a shell foundry, then you probably have other concerns. Shell tooling is different than cold-box tooling. Venting may be limited, and the air flow in hot shell tooling is vital to ensuring complete and uniform core filling behavior before the sand begins to harden. Shell sand core engineering physical models include: transient air flow during core filling sand particle size distribution multiple sand species core fill and miss-fill core density variations tool wear prediction sand flowability discrete vent models including: circular vents, slit vents, parting line venting, vent clogging, etc. [photo] Warm-box, Hot-box, Inorganics, ... Arena-flow has been used to simulate, understand and optimize a variety of other core making processes. While the flowability or "stickiness" of these binder systems can differ, Arena-flow includes a custom flowability model which enables you to compute the complex, core-filling behavior. Advanced sand core engineering physical models include: transient air flow during core filling sand particle size distribution multiple sand types and mixtures tool wear prediction resin wipe-off prediction custom sand flowability discrete vent models magazine performance and rat-holing