This blog explores the numerous applications of pin fin heat sinks and how they can enhance thermal management for optimal device performance.
This blog is based on an article originally published in NAFEMS’ special edition of Benchmark magazine to celebrate 100 years of CFD.
Time spent on solving is time that is not spent on billable services. Shock and vibration analyses of complex models could take up to a day or more. Learn how Altair provided the answer.
The goal of this computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study was to analyze the biventricular performance of the AVAD across its wide range of operating conditions.
This 2 Minute Papers installment features fluid simulations.
HYCET is reducing physical gearbox testing while increasing the efficiency of its CFD simulations to include richer, more detailed oiling information including flow rate, hydrodynamic torque, fluid contact time, heat transfer coefficient, and more.
A 55% lower thermal resistance compared to the conventional design showing a potential to improve CPU performance and safety.
Thanks to knowledge transfer across different categories of design with only a few samples, NCS makes introducing significant changes possible while leveraging existing simulation data.
The challenge in this case study is to develop an optimization procedure able to speed-up geometry modifications handling and to enable interconnection and integration between commercial and open-source tools.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation (FEA software) and SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation (CFD software) are both capable of solving heat transfer and thermal analysis problems.
Major changes to the Siemens CAD-embedded computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software include electronics design enhancements, the integration of Nastran nonlinear applications and a faster mesher.
The Pelton Wheel’s bucket design and shape greatly influence the efficiency and productivity of a power station. Pienergies did not have the design plans for the buckets in their existing Pelton Wheels. To improve their efficiency, they needed to capture and analyze their current design, optimize it, and then manufacture a new and improved Pelton wheel.
This blog explores key principles, challenges, and strategies that engineers employ to tackle heat-related issues and design systems capable of withstanding demanding thermal conditions.
Learn how to use Coreform Cubit's broad meshing capabilities, along with its powerful Python scripting capabilities, to develop the case directory structure for OpenFoam within the Cubit GUI interface.
Orbital Stack, the CFD tool created by global leaders in wind engineering and microclimate analysis, RWDI, partnered with Engineering Intelligence firm, Neural Concept, in order to add the power of AI to their App for structural engineers. Orbital Stack makes climate-informed design easy, affordable, and understandable.
The challenge with high-fidelity CFD simulations is that they’re enormously compute-intensive. A single simulation can involve models with hundreds of millions of nodes or cells.
Whether you're an enthusiast, a student, or an engineer, this article explores the complexities and compelling applications of thermal engineering.
Veryst used CFD (computational fluid dynamics) to simulate ventilation in the hospital room, heat-induced natural convection, and the dispersion of suspended particles.
Mesh quality and accuracy bear direct implications on the credibility of your simulation results.
This blog explores the importance of accurate preprocessing within engineering simulation processes.
Tampere Formula Student is a motorsport designing team comprised of student members at Tampere Universities. In 2022, they competed in four different competitions and have recovered from their 6-week competition trip and are now ready for more challenges in 2023.
This paper explains what abstract modelling is, including differences and commonalities with traditional pre-processors, its unique approach to automation, and how it can be used for “simulation apps”.
This presentation from the NAFEMS conference covers the abstract modeling automated process along with simulation applications.
SIMULIA Solutions for the two-wheeler market with SIMULIA PowerFLOW technology, helmet wind.
Gases or fluids must be injected at the same time in several instances. Introducing a manifold in those devices can boost the system's performance.
Thermal network models are mathematical models which can be used to analyze and optimize flow and heat transfer in complex systems.
Simcenter FLOEFD empowers designers at Seiko Epsom Corporation to analyze semiconductor designs and improve productivity.
With a dedicated methodology for the fundamental study of Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD), the book has been released by Springer and is now available for purchase.
This integration supports the creation of CAD models of turbomachinery products such as turbines, pumps, compressors, and fans and running simulations to evaluate their blade profiles, pressure-flow characteristics, and efficiency requirements.
Hexagon’s CFD technology was used to determine that a tracking system could optimize a panel’s orientation and increase efficiency by up to 20%.
CFD simulates the streaming nature of fluids and the way in which the flow changes when fluids interact with surfaces.
Understanding and Applying Boundary Conditions in CFD
Teignbridge Innovation and Technology department employs STAR-CCM+, by Siemens Digital Industries Software (DISW), to run fast and accurate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations.
With a dedicated methodology for the fundamental study of Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD), the book has been released by Springer and is now available for purchase.
This integration supports the creation of CAD models of turbomachinery products such as turbines, pumps, compressors, and fans and running simulations to evaluate their blade profiles, pressure-flow characteristics, and efficiency requirements.
CFD simulates the streaming nature of fluids and the way in which the flow changes when fluids interact with surfaces.
Understanding and Applying Boundary Conditions in CFD
Thermal analysis has become a key enabler to ensure reliable and well-performing products.
The Compressible fluid flow analysis is used to run simulations where fluid density variations have a considerable impact on the flow simulations.
A CFD simulation involves the use of the fundamental laws of mechanics, governing equations of fluid dynamics and modeling to mathematically formulate a physical problem.
Creo Flow Analysis supports geometry created using the lattice feature in Creo. All gyroid and lattice geometry can now be used to define very complex fluid bodies and used in computational fluid dynamics.
The world is changing at a pace never seen before, and the competition does not sleep. And while you are competing with your SMB peers, you either compete with or need to find your place alongside the big players.
A look at Fluid Flow Dynamics throughout the centuries.
Cradle CFD version 2023 is a Multiphysics Computational Fluid Dynamics solution to enhance productivity for designing, researching, and manufacturing.
Researchers and musicians alike are turning to FEA and CFD to help with instrument design.
This example workload demonstrates running computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulations by using Azure. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA), and discrete element method (DEM) are all examples of CAE simulations.
With Neural Concept Shape, you can use 3D numerical simulations as input to train your deep learning models. If we take the example of aerodynamic simulations, these CFD simulations results are usually much larger files than images or text (a single result can reach several hundreds of GB). Hence storing a large amount of them can become an issue in the long term, as it would require to regularly scale up the hardware infrastructures accordingly.
Watch this webinar, where experts will guide you through a generic four-bladed quadcopter drone harmonic simulation in the Cadence Fidelity CFD Platform.
SIMULIA’s newly released PowerDELTA® 6-2022 enables automation through Operations Templates and Precise wrap.
In Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2302 Siemens is releasing the Simulation Guide allowing you to centralize information in one place by embedding notes/instructions directly in the simulation file. With this feature organizing your notes, collaborating, and sharing knowledge with your colleagues just became easier boosting your CFD productivity.
Which simulation type is appropriate for you? In this video we will cover the different physics you can tackle within the SimScale platform and when you should select each.
Automated meshing procedures are crucial in CFD simulations and generative thermal design. In this article, we'll explore why using a robust and automated meshing procedure in ColdStream is important and the benefits it can bring to your simulation projects.
This presentation presents the steps to develop an optimization procedure to speed up geometry modifications via the interconnection and integration between commercial and open-source tools.
Speeding up CFD simulations through more efficient solver techniques is still the most cost-effective way to go faster.
Phase change is the process by which a substance changes from one state of matter to another. The most common phase changes include the transition from solid to liquid (melting), liquid to solid (freezing), liquid to gas (evaporation), and gas to liquid (condensation). The laws of thermodynamics govern these changes, which are caused by changes in temperature and pressure.
Abstract Modeling as the easiest way to automate (CFD) pre-processing.
Temperature, humidity and air movements are central to thermo-fluid analysis. That’s a branch of engineering that seeks to understand and predict heat transfer in the context of moving particles, liquid or vapor. Being able to quantify those factors, scientists can then use computer modelling to understand and perhaps mitigate the possibility of heatstroke.
This video presents the capabilities of DEEN product on design and engineering simulation engineering.
This video demonstrates post processing using META. This includes the creation of cut planes, streamlines, report generation, along with insight on how to automate the process.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has proven to be a feasible and faster way of approaching building design virtually. Simulations can be used at multiple stages of a building design starting from microclimate assessment using building massing, selection of ventilation components, occupant comfort assessments, and analysis to check for regulatory compliance.
In this two-pager, learn how numerical simulations are influencing the LED industry and explore the benefits of thermal management using an accurate yet user-friendly simulation tool.
There exist a wide range of types of optimization problems. Still, they can all be summarized as a combination of one or more objective functions subject to several additional constraints.
Simulating fluid flow and heat transfer phenomena with satisfying accuracy is an incredibly complex task generally achieved using CFD. ColdStream is not an exception to this rule and runs all simulations and optimizations through CFD calculations. But solving physical equations simultaneously for millions or even hundreds of millions of small discrete portions of space is a task of complexity well beyond what an average computer can do.
Flow Science’s FLOW-3D 2022R2 Product Family has a unified solver that allows access to the features of OpenMP/MPI hybrid parallelization, whether running on an HPC cluster or an engineering workstation.
Hardware makers explain how they use analysis to configure their products.
RavenCFD (computational fluid dynamics) is a full three-dimensional Navier-Stokes flow solver for compressible viscous flows on unstructured grids. RavenCFD is tailored for robust steady-state and time-accurate solutions for a variety of multi-dimensional flows.
A typical SimScale application is the analysis of electronics enclosures for thermal management, specifically, scenario testing multiple cooling strategies. Fan behavior can be simulated in several ways in SimScale.
Watch how SIMULIA helps to optimize engineering designs in the Aerospace and Defense industry. Our software solutions can simulate normal cruise conditions, as well as dynamic conditions such as takeoff and landing, buffeting, and aerodynamic degradation from icing conditions.
This recorded webinar details CAE post-processing using META.
The digital twin for the data center is now ‘a thing’ insofar as the whole industry is talking about it. But it’s not ‘a thing’ in the sense that there is no single version of it.
FEA and CFD can solve thermal problems, but there is a difference in the solution accuracy while solving different physics.
SimScale's cloud platform, offering ease of use for complex geometries, automatic contact detection, automated meshing and virtually limitless scaling capabilities for CHT industrial–scale problems that often involve complex geometries.
Despite some holdouts, most simulation providers have woken up and smelled the graphics cards.
CFD experts run airflow analysis on the iconic 'Star Wars’ battlecraft to dissect its aerodynamics.
This on-demand webinar will present a real-life case study with Hazleton Pumps, showcasing: Validations that prove the speed and accuracy of CFD simulations with SimScale and how to generate automated performance curves via rapid, parametrized design iterations.
This blog provides a brief overview of CFD, its history, applications, and the theory behind it.
Read about a new app that helps HVAC designers solve these problems better and faster by making state-of-the-art simulation technology more accessible than ever before.
An optimum HVAC system provides occupant thermal comfort and good indoor air quality throughout the year, irrespective of the outside weather conditions. Besides achieving these performance criteria, HVAC systems should also be energy efficient.
As a multiphysics Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD software tool, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ offers exactly that solution to allow engineers to run high-fidelity aeroacoustic simulations, fast and yet accurately.
This article describes efforts in collaboration with Electra to model an eSTOL aircraft using computational fluid dynamics.
Export order for blocks, or volume zones, can be key, particularly when exporting multiple modifications of a grid. See how you can view that order and control it.
Simulation specialist Hexagon says it has demonstrated how complex CFD simulations, that were previously too time consuming and expensive to consider, can be achieved using capabilities derived from the world’s fastest supercomputer.
The main task of a design engineer is design, not simulation. However, a design engineer needs simulation to be competitive. Watch this video to see how you can be a more competitive design engineer by incorporating CFD simulation into your design process using Simcenter FloEFD.
