AcuSolve has a rich set of ever growing functionality:

Conservative Equation Systems in 3D

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

Radiation

• Gray body enclosure radiation
• View-factor computation
• Solar radiation

Turbulence Models

• One-equation Spalart-Allmaras RANS model
• LES and dynamic subgrid LES models
• Hybrid RANS/LES (DES) model

Arbitrary Eulerian Lagrangian (ALE) Technology

• Flexible mesh movement
• Free Surface modeling

Sliding Mesh

• Translational, rotational and general sliding mesh

Rigid Body Interaction

• Fully bidirectional interaction

Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI)

• A practical approach (P-FSI)
• Direct coupling to external code (DC-FSI)

Rotating Flows

• Multiple frames of reference
• Sliding mesh

Computational Aero Acoustics (CAA)

• Pseudo-compressibility, isentropic & ideal gas law density
• Non-reflective boundary conditions
• CAA output & interface support

Component Technology

• Fan component
• Heat exchange component

Rich Set of Material Options

• Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids
• Porous media
• Melting and heat of formation
• User-defined function

Full Set of Boundary Conditions

• Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions
• Periodic and axisymmetric conditions
• Thermal periodic condition
• Integrated surface boundary condition
• General two-point constraint
• Experimental data imposition (static and transient)
• External code coupling
• Dynamic BC activation
• Non-reflective BC
• User-defined function

Highly Effective Solver Technology

• Fast and robust iterative linear solvers
• A novel and highly efficient iterative solver for the fully coupled pressure/velocity equation systems
• A companion fully coupled temperature/flow iterative equation solver
• Fully parallel on shared and distributed memory machines, transparent to the user

Solution Strategy

• Fast steady state solver
• Second-order time-accurate transient analysis
• Automatic time-stepping algorithms

Advanced Finite Element Technology

• Galerkin/Least-Squares finite element method
• Unstructured mesh: 4-node tetrahedron 5-node pyramid, 6-node wedge, 8-node brick, and 10-node tetrahedron elements
• Equal-order (nodal) interpolation for all solution fields, including pressure

Particle Tracer

• Fast and accurate particle tracer
• Laminar and turbulent diffusion
• Parallel computation