Abstract
The vapor film collapse that occurs in the quenching process is complicated and unstable, these affects the heat treatment quality and its distortion. Particularly in mass production, where production costs are taken into consideration, products are often packaged in group load setting, so it is very important to know the deformation variation and distribution within that process. In order to incorporate it into the MBD technology required these days, it is necessary to predict the quality of heat treatment by CAE, shorten the product development period. However, in the past day, in order to formulate the vapor film collapse on a simulation, it was necessary to perform a very large amount of computational fluid dynamics calculation (CFD), because of a problem in computer resources and the model of vapor film collapse. In addition, this phenomenon has an complexity behavior of the phenomenon in iterative processing in mass production, which also complicates the calculation. The vapor film collapse phenomenon was visualized by using cellular automaton simulation its include the phenomena of “Vapor film thickness”, “Flow disturbance”, “Surface step of workpiece”, “the pressure for vapor film”. In this study, the Markovian property of vapor film surface vibration was clarified, and the heat treatment deformation instability of ring-shaped parts due to it was predicted.