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Table 5 Computational (wall-clock) time in hours for thermal models presented in this paper

From: Classification and analysis of common simplifications in part-scale thermal modelling of metal additive manufacturing processes

Simplification

Time (h)

Relative (%)

No. of layer(s)

No. of patch(es)

Thermal models

 (\(\hat{A}_\Omega /400\),1,1)

317.1

100

1

400

 (\(\hat{A}_\Omega /256\),1,1)

220.5

69

1

256

 (\(\hat{A}_\Omega /100\),1,1)

89.1

28

1

100

 (\(\hat{A}_\Omega /25\),1,1)

20.7

6

1

25

 (\(\hat{A}_\Omega \),1,1)

55.6

17

20

1

 (\(\hat{A}_\Omega \),\(\hat{t}_g\),1)

1.1

0.4

20

1

 (\(\hat{A}_\Omega \),1,2)

39.1

12.7

20

1

 (\(\hat{A}_\Omega \),\(\hat{t}_g\),2)

1.0

0.3

20

1

 (\(\hat{A}_\Omega \),1,5)

14.5

4.5

20

1

 (\(\hat{A}_\Omega \),\(\hat{t}_g\),5)

0.7

0.2

20

1

  1. All computations are performed using 20 cores on a HPC cluster