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The study deals with the optimisation of medium-to highstrength aluminium wrought alloys. The goal is to define processing routes in order to improve the mechanical properties if compared to their commercial counterparts. It is shown for the Al-Mg-Si and the Al-Cu-Mg-Si system that the application of ECAP enables a significant increase in strength. The strengthening as well as the grain size reduction respectively, benefit from increasing alloying as well as from the degree of aging. It is also shown that the presence of a considerably fine particulate reinforcement hardens the material tremendously during ECAP. The combination of a pre-or post-ECAP heat treatment enables the improvement of the workability on the one hand, reducing the loads on the die, and also gives a better ductility on the other hand. This positive effect is particularly pronounced for low alloying contents and high aging temperatures and can be attributed to the interaction of deformation induced defects and the precipitation activity. The combination of an appropriate set of ECAP parameters (heat treatment condition, ECAPstrain, -temperature, -backpressure) enables the efficient production of outstanding properties. Due to the low workability of AA7075 (Al-Zn-Mg-Cu system) no significant improvement in properties was achieved.

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Based on experimental results of upsetting tests of an case hardening steel, constitutive stress-strain relations were developed according to various phenomenological and semiempirical models proposed in the literature, covering the strain rate between @=10" to 10' s-' and the temperature range between room temperature and 1200°C including, with special emphasis, the two phase region between Al and A3.Resume. Sur la base des resultats des tests de compression d'un acier de cimentation, des Quations constitutivks ont ete dbeloppees correspondant aux niodeles d'equations constitutives divers proposts de la litterature. Les etudes realistes comprendraient des vitesses de dilatation de lo-' a 10' s-I et des temperatures entre la temp6rature ambiante et 1200°C en consideration sp6ciale de la domaine diphasique de A1 a A3.

Large eddy simulations (LES) show a good prediction accuracy at a decent computational cost for the simulation of combustion processes in complex geometries. However, the large grids required make the direct solution of detailed reaction kinetics impracticable. Therefore, the chemical reactions can be tabulated in a pre-processing step using detailed chemistry with one-dimensional laminar steady flamelets. These flamelets can be either non-premixed or premixed and are stored based on controlling variables like mixture fraction and reaction progress parameter, for example. In this work, a progress variable approach (PVA) using premixed flamelets was adopted to generate a manifold defined by mixture fraction and reaction progress variable. Since the computation of the flamelets is only feasible between flammability limits, the data outside these limits has to be extrapolated to obtain the complete manifold for all chemical states. The extrapolation influences the stability of the LES and its prediction quality and so four different extrapolation schemes were studied. A probability density function (PDF) model was applied to account for subgrid scale variances. Two methods of modeling the joint PDF of mixture fraction and progress variable in terms of their statistical dependence were investigated. Some results of a bluff body configuration comparing the PDF modeling approaches are shown. The results demonstrated that a diffusion flame can be simulated with both the progress variable approach based on premixed flamelets and classic non-premixed flamelets without progress variable.

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Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and flamelet-based combustion models were applied to four bluff-body stabilized nonpremixed and partially premixed flames selected from the Sydney flame series, based on Masri's bluff-body test rig (University of Sydney). Three related non-reacting flow cases were also investigated to assess the performance of the LES solver. Both un-swirled and swirled cases were studied exhibiting different flow features, such as recirculation, jet precessing and vortex breakdown. Due to various fuel compositions, flow rates and swirl numbers, the combustion characteristics of the flames varied greatly. On six meshes with different blocking structure and mesh sizes, good prediction of flow and scalar fields using LES/flamelet approaches and known fuel and oxidizer mass fluxes was achieved. The accuracy of predictions was strongly influenced by the combustion model used. All flames were calculated using at least two modeling strategies. Starting with calculations of isothermal flow cases, simple single flamelet based calculations were carried out for the corresponding reacting cases. The combustion models were then adjusted to fit the requirements of each flame. For all flame calculations good agreement of the main flow features with the measured data was achieved. For purely nonpremixed flames burning attached to the bluff-body's outer edge, flamelet modeling including strain rate effects provided good results for the flow field and for most scalars. The prediction of a partially premixed swirl flame could only be achieved by applying a flamelet-based progress variable approach.