Production of glass bottles requires blowing of the glass after entrance of a gob of molten glass in the bank mould. The final shape of the bottle is highly dependent on the viscosity of the glass, the blow-pressure and the temperature distribution in the glass and the mould and simulation of this complicated process enables optimizations of the process conditions. During simulation of blowing of the glass, the mesh has to be adapted due to the extreme deformations of the mesh. To reduce the user time and to be able to run this kind of analyses automatically based on arbitrary base geometry, a completely automated remeshing/rezoning procedure is set up .Using the automated remeshing capability, simulations of the glass bottle forming process have successfully been performed, enabling for example optimizations of process setting.
