Laser Assisted Manufacturing, TU Wien

Youtube channel of the Research Unit of Photonic Technologies (Vienna University of Technology).
http://llf.ift.tuwien.ac.at/

Among our research activities are the development of optics and metrology systems, sensing technologies, laser cutting and joining, as well as laser assisted forming processes. Most recently operations have been extended into the micro- and nanoscale processing.

The development of the simulation software at the group has always been targeted at a multiphysics model taking into account all the parameters determining the behaviour of materials across any state of matter. Apart from process analysis it is also ideally suitable for process design, improvement and optimisation.

Simulations involving phase changes and CFD-phenomena are carried out using OpenFOAM (https://openfoam.org/). Forming processes involving contact and plastic deformations are simulated with Ansys or Abaqus, whichever suits best.