Altair HyperXtrude is packed with features for extensive support polymer processing analysis and similar problems. The goal of these tutorials is to enable you to use HyperXtrude for your analysis. If a specific tutorial you need is not available in the release, please contact hxsupport@altair.com. It may be already available, however, not included in the release.

HyperXtrude is used to analyze following classes of problems. These analyses include the study of material flow, heat transfer, and free surface/material interface/tool deformation (depending on the context).

In general, HyperXtrude can be used to model the material flow in arbitrary three-dimensional conduits. In order to facilitate these analyses, HyperXtrude supports a variety of material models. These models can be function of shear rate, temperature and time (thixotropy). Models supported for non-Newtonian flow in HyperXtrude are:

HyperXtrude uses Casson model for thixotropy and supports four different temperature dependency functions.

 

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