日本神户钢铁公司开发了铸件分析(CASTEM,计算机程序。该程序能够模拟熔融状态金属的冷却凝固,因此在加工前就可以分析冒口、铸模、绝缘材料设置等因素对凝固过程的影响。该程序由三个子程序组成: 1)准备程序提供分析模型的CAD图并自动给出有限无网格; 2)模拟程序提供两维或三维的凝固分析; 3)终处理程序显示上述分析结果。 Japan’s Kobe Steel developed CASTEM, a computer program that simulates the cooling and solidification of molten metal so the effects of riser, mold, and insulating material setting on the solidification process can be analyzed prior to machining. It consists of three subroutines: 1) The preparation program provides a CAD drawing of the analysis model and automatically presents a finite meshlessness; 2) The simulation program provides two-dimensional or three-dimensional solidification analysis; and 3) The final processing program displays the above analysis results.