Simulation of 3D grinding temperature field by using an improved finite difference method

3D grinding temperature field can be simulated by the finite difference method. When the finite difference method is used to calculate the temperature field, the boundary conditions need to be considered. Unfortunately, the difference equations for internal nodes and boundary nodes are not the same. For cuboid computing domains, there are twenty-six types of boundary nodes. This reduces the calculation efficiency to a certain extent. An improved finite difference method for the 3D grinding temperature field was proposed to solve this problem in this paper. By adding auxiliary nodes, the boundary nodes are converted into internal nodes, and the difference equations of the boundary nodes and internal nodes are unified. In this paper, the improved algorithm was used to simulate the 3D grinding temperature field. The temperature distribution characteristics of the grinding temperature field were analyzed. Then, the effects of heat source type, space step size, and convective heat transfer coefficient on the temperature field were studied. The results show that the improved algorithm can well simulate the 3D grinding temperature field. Finally, compared with the original algorithm, the calculation results were completely consistent, and the efficiency is improved by about 20%.