Cellular Scanning Strategy for Selective Laser Melting: Capturing Thermal Trends with a Low-Fidelity, Pseudo-Analytical Model

Table 2

Comparison between 3D thermal FE models and pseudo-analytical model for parallel scan path.

Features	3D thermal FE model	Pseudo-analytical model	Coarse 3D thermal FE model
Molten elements (%)	42.92	46.75	38.5
Overheated elements (%)	12.44	12.5	11
Maximum Temperature (°C)	3200	3055.2	2964.87
Maximum st. dev. of temperature (°C)	466.01	488.70	454.89
Simulation time (s)	5728.0	9.22	17.010
𝜃	1.9706	1.6959	1.8922