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

Table 3

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

Features	3D thermal FE model	Pseudo-analytical model	Coarse 3D thermal FE model
Molten elements (%)	45.08	43.5	44.75
Overheated elements (%)	9.32	12.75	2.5
Maximum temperature (°C)	2878	2838.9	2587.76
Maximum st. dev. of temperature (°C)	282.55	294.69	263.344
Simulation time (s)	5896.5	9.37	18.22
Θ	1.9824	2.8625	0.3239