AI Akselos ANSA ANSYS Aras ASSESS Autodesk AweSim BETA CAE BETA CAE Systems Blogger Bruce Jenkins business of siimulation BWAY CAASE20 CAASE 2018 Cadence CAE Cenos CFD CFD Simulation CIMdata Cloud-based CAE Cloud-based HPC cloud computing COFES Comet Solutions computational fluid dynamics COMSOL Coreform Coreform Cubit Covid19 Simulation CREO Dassault Systemes Data Center Data Center Digital Twin data center digital twins democratization Democratized Simulation Democratizing HPC Democratizing Simulation Design Space Exploration Diabatix Digital Engineering Digital Engineering Magazine digital thread Digital Twin Digital Twins EASA Engineering.com ESRD ESTECO excel fea FMI Front End Analytics Future Facilities Generative Design GKN Driveline Hexagon Hexagon MSC Hexagon MSC Software High Performance Cloud Computing HPC Intelligent Templates intrinSim Kenneth Wong Kinetic Vision Malcolm Panthaki Matt Ladzinski Maya HTT MBSE Modelica Modelon MSC Software MultiPhysics Simulation Multi Physics Simulation NAFEMS NAFEMS America Novus Nexus nTopology ohio supercomputer center OnScale Ora Research PASS Software Phoenix Integration Pointwise PTC PTC Creo Rev-Sim Rev-Sim.org Revolution in Simulation Seb Dewhurst Siemens Siemens NX Siemens Simcenter Siemens Xcelerator SimApps Sim Apps Simcenter SimScale Simulation Simulation-led Design Simulation Applications Simulation Apps Simulation Automation Simulation Governance SIMULIA SolidWorks SOLIDWORKS Simulation SPDM SPDRM System Simulation Template-Based Simulation The UberCloud Uber Cloud UberCloud VCollab web app Xcelerator
  1. Home
    2. ››
  2. Computational Fluid Dynamics

What Is CFD?

GPUs Are Taking Over the Engineering Simulation Market

Despite some holdouts, most simulation providers have woken up and smelled the graphics cards.

How Would You Redesign the Star Wars TIE Fighter?

CFD experts run airflow analysis on the iconic 'Star Wars’ battlecraft to dissect its aerodynamics.

Empowering designers to analyze designs and improve productivity

Simcenter FLOEFD empowers designers at Seiko Epsom Corporation to analyze semiconductor designs and improve productivity.

Solution Providers:

Pump Design Powered by the Cloud with Hazleton Pumps

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.

What Is Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) – And How Does It Really Work?

This blog provides a brief overview of CFD, its history, applications, and the theory behind it.

CFD technology used to position and orient solar panels and wind turbines

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%.

Solution Providers:

Democratize the world of HVAC simulations

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.

Role of CFD in designing optimum HVAC systems

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.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Powers Precise Marine Engineering with Maya HTT and Siemens DISW

Teignbridge Innovation and Technology department employs STAR-CCM+, by Siemens Digital Industries Software (DISW), to run fast and accurate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations.

Solution Providers:

Maya HTT

Aeroacoustic Simulation – Fighting noise with CFD

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.

Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short Takeoff and Landing Aircraft: Part 1

This article describes efforts in collaboration with Electra to model an eSTOL aircraft using computational fluid dynamics.

Developing Market-disruptive HVAC Airflow Products with SOLIDWORKS

Grupo NAMM (The NAMM Group) needed flow simulation and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis capabilities to show air flow performance, which prompted NAMM management to decide to replace the previous design software that the company had been using with SOLIDWORKS® solutions.

Solution Providers:

Fidelity Pointwise: Sort for Block Export

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.

Hexagon enables complex CFD simulation on Fugaku supercomputer-based hardware

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.

ULC Technologies Innovates Robots with SOLIDWORKS Solutions

ULC had been using SOLIDWORKS® 3D CAD to design robots, but it needed additional capabilities to develop a robot to navigate the harsh environment of a lengthy, combustible, corrosive, pressurized natural gas pipeline with many irregular surfaces, including valves and miter joints, sharp-edged obstructions, and 90-degree turns. SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation became the answer to address this challenge.

Solution Providers:

Support your design process with CFD simulation

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.

The Benefits and Limitations of Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

In offshore engineering, CFD has found a niche area in offering both insights and foresights for complex problems.

EOS Energy Slashes Development Cycle Times with SOLIDWORKS Solutions

Eos added SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium for nonlinear static, nonlinear dynamic, and linear dynamic analysis and SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis to augment product development.

Solution Providers:

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a science that, with the help of digital computers, produces quantitative predictions of fluid-flow phenomena based on the conservation laws (conservation of mass, momentum, and energy) governing fluid motion.

Perform multiphysics CFD simulations that are within 2% of physical experimental results

This webinar series discusses how to improve the accuracy of CFD simulations by leveraging multiphysics methods available from Hexagon. In one example, the use of multiphysics and CFD yielded accurate aircraft flutter analysis within 2% of physical experimental results.

Brainchild Engineering Innovates Faster with Simulation

Cloud-native CAD and CAE allow Brainchild engineers to work remotely very effectively, as they have deployed a hybrid approach of local versus global engineering talent. The results were 20 virtual prototype design iterations and 100x or more ROI realized.

Solution Providers:

Predicting Aerodynamic Flow Around Automotive Vehicles

This webinar presents a comparison between standard RANS models, Stress-Omega RSM implementation, and unsteady scale resolving approaches on several representative test cases including Windsor body and DrivAer.

Fidelity Pointwise 2022.1 Hot Fix 2 Now Available

Fidelity Pointwise 2022.1 Hot Fix 2 is now available for download and production use. While primarily a maintenance release with 66 defect corrections (42 in 2022.1.1 and 24 in 2022.1.2), several small new features have also been added.

KPF Develops Rhino App for Early-Stage Design Using SimScale

This case study examines Environmental Design and Sustainability at KPF.  The company developed a microclimate app in less than 3 months and deployed it to over 100 architects globally.

Solution Providers:

Streamline Reading and Writing Files from Fidelity Pointwise

For a CFD solution, a CAD geometry goes in, and a CFD mesh comes out! Only if it was as simple as it sounded. Although file management in practice is more complex than that, it need not be complicated. Below are a few tips and tricks for reading and writing files from Fidelity Pointwise

The Beauty of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD Simulation)

Holzmann CFD made an arbitrary test case during the OpenFOAM Workshop 2017. The set-up includes moving boundary conditions and is kept extremely simple. Besides the simplicity of the geometry, highly complex fluid structures occur in the domain.

Fully-coupled Fluid Dynamics Engine Simulation of a Gas Turbine

One of the main challenges in designing an engine is the complexity in terms of geometrical details and of interaction effects between the components which must be modelled with accuracy and acceptable computation time.

Solution Providers:

CFD simulation of a bullet fired

CFD simulation of a bullet fired from gun barrel. Bullet motion is computed by integrating the aerodynamic forces. Computation has been done with OpenFoam at GDTech in Belgium.

Analysis of Cavitation Effects in Pumps

A rotating machinery engineer working on a new product or component can import and edit their CAD model in SimScale to perform multiple analysis types such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), structural, and thermal using automated workflows and intuitive user interfaces.

Using CFD to Increase Renewable Energy Efficiency 20%

Learn how Hexagon’s solution portfolio is used to improve renewable energy technology.

Solution Providers:

Reduce CFD Simulation Time by 40%

See how CAD designers at Dr. Schneider Unternehmensgruppe use Simcenter to help make car passengers feel more comfortable.

Microclimate Simulation for Architects and Engineers

The SimScale platform has been adopted by leading global AEC firms to utilize the Pedestrian Wind Comfort (PWC) approach during early-stage design. Learning about your design early rather than later in the cycle and mitigating issues is the objective.

Fan Noise Simulation Using HELYX

Automotive cooling fans are one of the major noise sources within a vehicle and can generate 85dBA at certain frequencies. With the average American spending 8.5 hours driving per week, reducing fan noise is a key target for automotive manufacturers.

Solution Providers:

CFD simulation of a bullet fired

CFD simulation of a bullet fired from gun barrel. Bullet motion is computed by integrating the aerodynamic forces. Computation has been done with OpenFoam at GDTech in Belgium.

Analysis of Cavitation Effects in Pumps

A rotating machinery engineer working on a new product or component can import and edit their CAD model in SimScale to perform multiple analysis types such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), structural, and thermal using automated workflows and intuitive user interfaces.

Reduce CFD Simulation Time by 40%

See how CAD designers at Dr. Schneider Unternehmensgruppe use Simcenter to help make car passengers feel more comfortable.

Microclimate Simulation for Architects and Engineers

The SimScale platform has been adopted by leading global AEC firms to utilize the Pedestrian Wind Comfort (PWC) approach during early-stage design. Learning about your design early rather than later in the cycle and mitigating issues is the objective.

How to Tackle Cavitation in Pump and Propeller Designs with CFD

This blog from Cadence shares some know-how, summarizing state-of-the-art CFD technologies for cavitation prediction and covering different applications and CFD features to answer the engineer's needs.

Dynamics that Affect the Shrinkage of Injection Molded Parts

With a more detailed understanding of shrinkage behavior, and with assistance from simulation software, mold engineers can address shrinkage earlier in the design process, save time, and improve part quality.

Drone Flight Simulation

A simple workflow in the SimScale platform can guide engineers through a drone/UAV simulation, showing the external aerodynamics using CFD and static structural simulation for loading and vibration analysis.

10 Steps from CAD to CFD Using Fidelity Pointwise

According to the NASA CFD Vision 2030 Study, CAD interoperability and access to geometry, mesh adaptation and high-order mesh generation, mesh generation kernels, and automated mesh generation are key topics that require due consideration and commitment.

Aero CFD offers quick and efficient assessments of thermo-mechanical whole engine responses of turbomachines at lower computational costs

Aero CFD lets you to accurately model thermo-mechanical effects on the whole engine over full mission cycles. The solution offers an alternative to running a full 3D conjugate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) on the whole engine model, which is cost-prohibitive during the early design phase.

Surfboard CFD – Riding the Digital Wave

The ambitious goal of the Surfboard Engineering Association (SEA) is simple: To disrupt the surfboard industry with a systematic scientific engineering approach. But not in a conventional manner.

The Ultimate CFD Quick Start

Advanced simulation capabilities don't have to be complex or difficult. Check out this quick start guide from CATI.

What is Computational Fluid Dynamics?

In product development, CFD enables the design of products and systems that meet requirements for fluid flow and heat transfer. This blog post discusses how this works.

The sound of hydrogen combustion CFD

What do combustion engineers and the Beach Boys have in common? They care about “Good Vibrations”.

Automating CFD Analysis Tasks with PYTHON and HELYX

Increase simulation agility, improve team efficiency, and reduce costs by automating computer aided engineering (CAE) tasks. This is especially true for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis tasks, where routine workflows can be systematically analyzed, built into best practices, and refined.

How to Simulate the Piston Effect in Train Tunnels

Engineers are turning to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to fully understand the influence of the aerodynamics variables effecting a train as it speeds through a tunnel.

Unlocking Innovation

E-Book: Accelerate product innovation by enhancing fluid and thermal performance in the early design phase.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) explained

In the world of fluid dynamics, the simulation solution is Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Modelling the flows and pressures around test items offers more than just force measurements of drag and lift. A calculated flow field allows engineers to study very complex motion in fine detail and investigate the effects of small changes.

Creepy Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

A CFD engineer makes proposals for a significantly better performing design and gets turned down by the CAD engineer (he typically has never met before) because his insights came too late or are not manufacturable at all. In some twist of this genre, the CAD designer has a great solution that fulfills all packaging constraints and he would have loved to understand the flow behavior but he has no tool to do so.

Set Up and Run Multiphysics CFD Simulations Faster with Simcenter STAR-CCM+’s Latest Release

STAR-CCM+ can now serve your innovation team better than ever with its new 2022.1 release.

CFD News from CadenceLIVE

In this Blog, John Chawner of Cadence shares his observations about CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2022. This is the first return to an in-person format in a couple of years for the event and the first time ever for in-person CFD involvement.

Simulating a Rigid Body in OnScale Solve

This blog investigates how rigid bodies are defined in OnScale Solve and how they can be used effectively.

How to create a CFD Study in 15 minutes

nstead of repetitive prototyping, CFD can significantly reduce design costs and save a lot of time. OnScale Solve provides a top tier CFD Solver that is simple to use and highly parallelizable, allowing you to run fast simulations to any CAD.

3 design features that result in optimal liquid cooling

How can you recognize efficient cooling? In this lecture, Joris expounds on a heat sink for an IGBT, an electronic component. He highlights 3 features of Diabatix’s heat sink designs which result in high performance cooling.

HVAC Components: Increased Performance with CFD Simulation

To design and create heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) components with higher performance, analyzing them for aerodynamic and pressure-flow characteristics is critical. Most types of ventilation systems need to be designed to have maximum airflow through them while reducing the pressure losses across the unit.

Webinar: Innovate swiftly and architect resilient cooling with HVAC CFD Software

Learn to optimize airflows with fast, easy-to-use and industry-proven HVAC CFD software that embeds directly in your native CAD environment.

Power Integrity Analysis

Cadence product management and engineering teams present a webinar about transient thermal analysis tools, adding an enclosure onto the design to see the thermal impact in 3D, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to visualize air flow and the latest improvements in the Sigrity™ and Celsius™ technology

Cadence is Funding Research on Adaptive Meshes for High-Speed Flows

This past summer, Cadence began funding research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) on a topic of significant current interest to the aerospace CFD community: mesh adaptation for high-speed flows.

Automated Meshing and Adaptive Re-Meshing at Bombardier

Discover how engineers at Bombardier developed the Meshing & Adaptive Re-meshing Server (MARS) with Cadence Pointwise’s Glyph scripting to create over 250,000 high-quality CFD meshes since 2017. MARS automates the meshing process, reduces meshing time, and ensures consistent user-agnostic meshes across geometry variations. In this presentation, learn how to: • Create high-quality meshes to resolve flows with reasonable cost • Use Glyph scripting to automate meshing for consistency, quality, and fast turn-around times • Encapsulate company best practices with templates for any geometry

CFD Simulation for Cooling Data Center Hardware

Cooling data center buildings is critical, as they consume large amounts of energy and are considered a carbon-intensive industry. This is set to continue as the global trends of digitalization and cloud computing further accelerate.

Webinar Series: Accelerate Wind Energy Revolution with CAE

In this webinar series you will learn how Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence solutions can help the wind energy industry overcome performance, reliability and lifecycle barriers with our comprehensive set of solutions spanning design & engineering simulation, manufacturing production & inspection, all the way to lifetime scanning & damage tracking.

Comparing Finite Volume & Particle CFD Simulation Methods for Understanding Lubrication in Automotive Transmissions & Axles

Paper: A two-year study by Jin Xu and William W. Liou, PhD, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering / Computational Engineering Physics Lab, Western Michigan University and Yang Yang, Cook Research Incorporated

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an aspect of multiphysics system analysis that undertakes simulating the behavior of fluids and their thermodynamic properties using numerical models.

This Week in CFD

Read John Chawner's "Another Fine Mesh" blog on all things CFD. This from the week of July 30, 2021.

Serving a perfect Guinness – the CFD way

Thanks to Simon Fischer, here’s the first ever Guinness served in perfection – by a CFD simulation tool. Hey, its five o-clock somewhere right?

It’s all in the numbering – mesh renumbering may improve simulation speed

Renumbering (ordering) of the cells in the Finite Volume Method (FVM) can affect the performance of the linear solver and thus the speed of the simulation.

Simulation of Fan Acoustics using LES on Overset Grids

Professor Kozo Fujii recently shared preliminary results of a large-eddy simulation of an axial fan that were computed on overset structured grids. Decomposition techniques were then used to compute the fan’s acoustic signature. A journal article and conference presentation are currently in-work and will contain more detail on the simulations and a broader range of results.

Turbulence Model Influence on Flow in the FDA Benchmark Blood Pump

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be used to influence decisions early in the design process. In order to assess the state-of-the-art of CFD and its predictive capability for medical devices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developed two benchmark models for validation.

CFD & Multiphysics Simulation

CFD simulates the flow of liquids and gases by performing millions of numerical calculations. CFD analysis is typically carried out earlier in the design process even before the first prototype is made. With high-speed supercomputers, better designs can be achieved quicker, faster, and cheaper. Multiphysics is advanced CFD involving multiple physics coupled to mimic the real behavior as accurately as possible.

Automatic (not Automated) Meshing

In this Blog post, Pointwise President, John Chawner shares the company's work to automatically generate an unstructured or hybrid mesh on and around virtually any geometry model.

Glyph scripts reduce meshing time by up to 90% and manual input from hours to minutes

Watch and download the presentation given by Steve Karman, Pointwise, Inc. at the Pointwise User Group Meeting about how Pointwise used custom Glyph scripts to automatically generate high-quality unstructured meshes for Engineering Sketch Pad (ESP) geometries, saving time and freeing users from repetitive and tedious tasks.

Automatic Unstructured Mesh Generation with Geometry Attribution

Technical Paper presented at AIAA SciTech 2019 describes a process that automatically creates unstructured meshes from water-tight geometry input using Glyph scripting. Utilizing this process, one can reduce meshing time by up to 90% and manual input from hours to minutes.

The Democratization of CFD: Taking Off

Computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, is moving toward democratization. Once the province of a subset of specialists, CFD is now reaching an ever-greater population of engineers.

The Democratization of CFD

“Democratization” is a buzzword that has been circulating around the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) community for some time. Learn more through this paper.

Moderators

Subscribe For Updates

RevolutionInSimulation.Org publishes a quarterly newsletter featuring the latest CFD updates, news, events, and more. Complete the form below to begin receiving Rev-Sim news!

By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Rev-Sim, LLC and its Sponsors. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by unsubscribing.

Follow Revolution In Simulation On LinkedIn

Follow Us

Blog Posts