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SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

Unveiling the Power of SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

SOLIDWORKS® Flow Simulation enables designers and engineers to simulate fluid flow, heat transfer, and fluid forces with unparalleled ease. This powerful Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tool is fully embedded within SOLIDWORKS, offering a seamless integration that enhances productivity and design quality.

SOLIDWORKS Flow Cost

SOLIDWORKS Flow cost varies depending upon the license type. Select the license type above for precise SOLIDWORKS Flow pricing and ordering.

Key Features at a Glance

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation excels in its ability to simulate real-world conditions for both liquid and gas flow. It allows designers to run “what if” scenarios and analyze the effects of fluid flow and heat transfer on their designs. This capability is crucial for making informed design decisions and achieving superior product performance. Moreover, the tool reduces time-to-market by enabling rapid evaluation of multiple design variations, thereby minimizing the need for physical prototypes. This saves time and significantly cuts costs associated with rework and physical testing.

HVAC and Electronic Cooling Modules

The HVAC Module is a game-changer for designers and engineers working on heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. It offers specialized simulation tools to tackle challenges like efficient cooling systems, lighting, and contaminant dispersion. Whether optimizing airflow or ensuring thermal comfort, the HVAC Module is equipped to deliver superior design solutions. On the other hand, the Electronic Cooling Module is tailor-made for thermal management challenges. It’s ideal for those working on PCB and enclosure designs, providing accurate thermal analysis to prevent overheating and ensure optimal performance.

Elevating Design with Advanced Simulation

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation goes beyond traditional analysis methods by incorporating features like prediction of noise generated by systems, simulation of electronic cooling for LED lighting, and optimization of air conditioning kits. These capabilities enable designers to test products in realistic environments and validate designs using advanced simulation methodologies.

Simplified Design Process

Integrating SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD simplifies the design process. It supports configurations and materials, offers an extensive engineering database, and provides comprehensive help documentation. This integration ensures a streamlined workflow, from design to simulation. To get a better in-depth understanding of SOLIDWORKS Flow consider our Flow Simulation Training Course.

Conclusion

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation is a cornerstone for designers and engineers seeking to elevate their products’ performance through sophisticated fluid flow and heat transfer analysis. Its specialized modules, advanced simulation capabilities, and seamless integration with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD make it an indispensable tool in the modern design toolkit.
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Ease of Use

The software is fully embedded in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD for easy use and data integrity. Using the same user interface (UI) paradigms as SOLIDWORKS with toolbars, menus, and context-sensitive right-click menus ensures rapid familiarization. Built-in tutorials and searchable online help aid learning and troubleshooting.

Design Data Reuse

Supports SOLIDWORKS materials and configurations to analyze multiple loads and product configurations quickly.

Multi-Parameter Optimization

Conduct an optimization study for more than one input variable using the Design of Experiments and Optimization parametric study. Run a calculation of design points and find optimum solutions.

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Capabilities

  • Compressible gas/liquid and incompressible fluid flows
  • Subsonic, transonic, and supersonic gas flows
  • Ability to take into account heat transfer by conduction in fluid, solid and porous media. Could be with or without conjugate heat transfer (Fluid-Solid) and with/without heat resistance (Solid-Solid).

Material Database

The software includes a customizable engineering database enabling users to model and include specific solid, fluid, and fan behaviors.

The HVAC engineering database extension adds specific HVAC components.

The Electronic Cooling extended engineering database includes specific electronic components and their thermal characteristics.

Internal Flow

Calculate the impact of fluid flow through your product.

External Flow

Calculate the impact of fluid flow around your product

2D – 3D

All calculations are on a full 3D domain by default. Where applicable, simulations can also be carried out in a 2D plane to reduce run time without affecting accuracy.

Heat Conduction in Solids

Temperature change in the product's solid geometry is an optional calculation. Conjugate heat transfer through convection, conduction, and radiation can be created. Calculations can include thermal contact resistance.

Flow Simulation: Calculate pure heat conduction in solids to identify problems without fluid for fast solutions.

HVAC Module: Include materials that are semitransparent to radiation for accurate solutions where the product's thermal load is influenced by transparent materials.

Electrical Cooling Module: Simulate specific electronics device effects

  • Thermoelectric coolers
  • Heat pipes
  • Joule heating
  • PCB lay-ups

Gravity

Include fluid buoyancy important for natural convection, free surface, and mixing problems.

Rotation

Ability to simulate moving/rotating surfaces or parts to calculate the effect of rotating/moving devices.

Free Surface

Lets you simulate flows with a freely moving interface between two immiscible fluids, such as gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, or gas-non-Newtonian liquid.

Symmetric

  • Simulation solution times can be reduced by using symmetry.
  • Cartesian symmetry can be applied to x, y, or z planes.
  • Sector period icy allows users to calculate a sector of a cylindrical flow.

Gases

Calculate both ideal and real flows for subsonic, transonic, and supersonic conditions.

Liquids

  • Liquid flows can be described as incompressible, compressible, or as non-Newtonian (as oil, blood, sauce, etc.).
  • For water flows, the location of cavitation can also be determined.

Steam

Water vapor condensation and relative humidity are calculated for flows that include steam.

Boundary Layer Description

Laminar, turbulent, and transitional boundary layers are calculated using a modified Law of the Wall approach.

Mixing Flows

You can perform flow analysis of any pair of fluids immiscible mixtures belonging to gases, liquids, or non-Newtonian liquids.

Non Newtonian Fluids

Determine the flow behavior of Non-Newtonian liquids, such as oil, blood, sauce, etc.

Flow Conditions

Problems can be defined by velocity, pressure, mass, or volume flow conditions.

Thermal Conditions

Thermal characteristics for fluids and solids can be set locally and globally for accurate setup.

Wall Conditions

Local and global wall thermal and roughness conditions can be set for accurate setup.

Porous Components

Ability to treat some model components as porous media with the fluid flow through them or simulate them as fluid cavities with a distributed resistance to fluid flow.

Visualization

Visualize the stress and displacement of your assembly with customizable 3D plots. Animate the response of your assembly under loads to visualize deformations, vibration modes, contact behavior, optimization alternatives, and flow trajectories.

Results Customization

Provides the standard results components for structural analysis, such as von Mises stresses, displacements, temperature, etc. The intuitive equation-driven result plot enables you to customize the post-processing of structural analysis results to better understand and interpret product behavior.

Communication & Reporting

Create and publish customized reports for communicating simulation results and collaborating with eDrawings®.

Two-phase (Fluid + Particles) Flows

The post-processor can calculate motions of specified particles (Particle Studies) and flows of specified extraneous fluids (Tracer Study) in the fluid flow. These calculations do not affect the fluid flow.

Noise Prediction (Steady State and Transient)

Predict noise using a fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) algorithm that converts a time signal to the complex frequency domain for transient analysis.

HVAC Conditions

Include materials semi-permeable to radiation for accurate thermal analysis.

Tracer Study

HVAC applications vary widely. Considerations for meeting thermal performance and quality requirements include airflow optimization, temperature, air quality, and containment control.

Comfort Parameters

Understand and evaluate thermal comfort levels for multiple environments using thermal comfort factor analysis.

Electronic Conditions

  • Heat Pipes
  • Thermal Joints
  • Two-resistor Components
  • Printed Circuit Boards
  • Thermoelectric Coolers

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