Low performance is considered one of the main drawbacks of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology. In the present work, the effect of the AlSi10Mg powder layer thickness on the laser melting process was investigated to improve the LPBF building rate. A high-fidelity simulation of the melt pool formation was performed for different thicknesses of the powder bed using the Kintech Simulation Software for Additive Manufacturing (KiSSAM, version cd8e01d) developed by the authors. The powder bed after the recoating operation was obtained by the discrete element method. The laser energy deposition on the powder particles and the substrate was simulated by ray tracing. For the validation of the model, an experimental analysis of single tracks was performed on two types of substrates. The first substrate was manufactured directly with LPBF technology, while the second was cast. The simulation was carried out for various combinations of process parameters, predominantly with a high energy input, which provided a sufficient remelting depth. The calculations revealed the unstable keyhole mode appearance associated with the low absorptivity of the aluminum alloy at a scanning speed of 300 mm/s for all levels of the laser power (325–375 W). The results allowed formulating the criteria for the lack of fusion emerging during LPBF with an increased layer thickness. This work is expected to provide a scientific basis for the analysis of the maximum layer thickness via simulation to increase the performance of the technology.

In this paper the solver based upon the RKDG method for solving three-dimensional Euler equations of gas dynamics is considered. For the numerical scheme the GPU implementation algorithm called DiamondTorre is used, which helps to improve the performance speed of cal- culations. The problem of the interaction of a spherical bubble with a planar shock wave is considered in the three-dimensional setting. The obtained calculations are in agreement with the known results of experiments and numerical simulations. The calculation results are ob- tained with the use of the PC

Interaction between a shock wave and an inhomogeneity in fluid has complicated behavior, including vortex and turbulence generating, mixing, shock wave scattering and reflection. In the present paper we deal with the numerical simulation of the considered process. The Euler equations of unsteady inviscid compressible three-dimensional flow are used into the four-equation model of multicomponent flow. These equations are discretized using the RKDG numerical method. It is implemented with the help of the DiamondTorre algorithm, so the effective GPGPU solver is obtained having outstanding computing properties. With its use we carry out several sets of numerical experiments of shock-bubble interaction problem. The bubble deformation and mixture formation is observed.