It is important to predict properties of manufactured components to ensure quality and reliability, especially in the aerospace engine industry.
Some manufacturing processes affect properties in an undesirable way.
It can for example be residual stresses or unwanted deformations of a component. This thesis is an initial study of how to numerical simulate the heat treatment processes and to predict the properties that affects the quality of manufacturing. There is a number of different ways to solve this problem. This solution will be used to generate boundary condition for the FE-prediction of temperature and mechanical changes during manufacturing. The coupling between CFD and FEM will be done in an automatic way.