Features and Functionality

Conservative Equations in 3D

• Incompressible & weakly compressible Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations
• Thermal analysis and conjugate heat transfer
• Multi-layered thermal shell equations
• Multi-species transport equations

Radiation

• Gray body enclosure radiation
• View-factor computation (in parallel)
• Solar radiation model

Turbulence Models

• One- and two-equation RANS model
• Smagorinsky and Dynamic sub-grid scale LES models
• Hybrid RANS/LES (DES & DDES) models

Arbitrary Eulerian Lagrangian (ALE) Technology

• Flexible mesh movement
• Free surface simulation
• Guide surface technology
• Sliding mesh technology

Powerful User-Defined Function (UDF) Capability

• Allows definition of material models, source terms, boundary conditions, etc.
• Client-server interface with external programs

Component Technology

• Fan component
• Heat exchange component

Multiphysics Capabilities

• Rigid body dynamics coupling
• Practical Fluid/Structure Interaction (P-FSI)
• Direct-Coupling Fluid/Structure Interaction (DC-FSI)

Support for Computational Aero Acoustics (CAA) Simulations

Unstructured Mesh Support

• 4-node tetrahedron, 5-node pyramid, 6-node wedge, 8-node brick, and 10-node tetrahedron elements

Highly Effective Solver Technology

• Novel and highly efficient iterative solver for fully coupled pressure/velocity equation systems
• Fully coupled temperature/flow iterative equation solver
• Fully parallel on shared and distributed memory machines, transparent to the user

Particle Tracer

• Fast and accurate parallelized particle tracer
• Laminar and turbulent diffusion

Supported Platforms

• Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
• Windows HPC Server 2008
• Linux (x86, x86-64 and Itanium)
• HP-UX (PA-RISC and Itanium)