SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
Understand the performance of your design before you build a single prototype.
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation: Why Choose It?
- Integrated into the SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD interface
- Looks and behaves like SOLIDWORKS
- Allows designers and engineers to simultaneously design and simulate – testing a product’s performance in rapid time
- Provides immediate feedback on the performance of designs as they change
- Simulates fluid flow and heat transfer on a product design before production
Tools in Flow Simulation
CFD
Visualization
Thermal Fluid Considerations
Electronics Thermal Considerations
Rotating Domains
Free Surface
What Is the Best SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Package for You?
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
Electronics Cooling Module
Package Comparison Matrix
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
HVAC Module
Electronics Cooling Module
SOLIDWORKS Simulation is fully integrated into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD to ensure data integrity and ease of use. Toolbars, menus, and context-sensitive right-click menus ensure rapid familiarization with SOLIDWORKS’ user interface. You can learn and troubleshoot using the built-in tutorials and searchable online help.
It is easy to analyze multiple loads and product configurations with SOLIDWORKS Simulation, as it supports SOLIDWORKS materials and configurations.
Using the Design of Experiments and Optimization parametric study, perform an optimization study for more than one input variable. Calculate design points and find optimum solutions.
- Flows of gases, liquids, and incompressible fluids
- Transonic, supersonic, and subsonic gas flows
- Ability to consider heat transfer by conduction in fluids, solids, and porous media. Conjugate heat transfer may be included or not (Fluid-Solid), and heat resistance may be included or not (Solid-Solid).
Flow Simulation: A customizable engineering database allows users to build models for solids, fluids, and fans.
HVAC Engineering Database Extension: The HVAC engineering database extension adds specific HVAC components to SolidWorks.
Electronic Cooling Module: This comprehensive engineering database contains information about specific electronic components and their thermal characteristics.
Internal flow analysis calculates air or liquid flow through a product design.
External flow analysis calculates air or liquid flow outside and around a product design.
The calculations are always performed in 3D by default. It is also possible to run simulations in 2D planes without affecting accuracy when applicable.
There is an option for calculating temperature changes in the solid geometry of the product. Combining convection, conduction, and radiation to transfer heat is possible. Users can include thermal contact resistance in calculations.
SolidWorks Flow Simulation: Identify problems where no fluid exists by calculating pure heat conduction.
HVAC Module: Use semitransparent materials where transparency affects the product’s thermal load to provide accurate solutions.
Electrical Cooling Module: Model-specific electronics device effects, including thermoelectric coolers, heat pipes, and joule heating.
Natural convection, free surfaces, and mixing problems require fluid buoyancy.
Calculate the effect of rotating or moving devices by simulating moving surfaces or parts.
Simulates flows between immiscible fluids, such as gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, and gas-non-Newtonian liquid.
- By taking advantage of symmetry, simulation solution times can be reduced.
- Cartesian symmetry can be applied to the x, y, or z planes.
- Using sector period icy, users can calculate a sector of a cylindrical flow.
Flow calculations for subsonic, transonic, and supersonic conditions.
- It is possible to describe liquid flows as incompressible, compressible, or non-Newtonian (oil, blood, sauce, etc.).
- It is also possible to determine the location of cavitation in water flows.
Water vapor condensation and relative humidity are calculated when steam is present in a flow.
A modified Law of the Wall approach calculates laminar, turbulent, and transitional boundary layers.
Users can perform the flow of any two fluids, whether they are gases, liquids, or non-Newtonian liquids.
Examine the flow behavior of non-Newtonian liquids, such as oil, blood, sauce, etc.
Users can define problems using velocities, pressures, masses, and volumes.
For accurate setup, users can set thermal characteristics for fluids and solids locally and globally.
To set up an accurate wall, users can set thermal and roughness conditions locally and globally.
Simulate some model components as fluid cavities with distributed resistance to fluid flow or as porous media with fluid flowing through them.
With customizable 3D plots, you can visualize your assembly’s stress and displacement. Animate the response of your assembly under loads to visualize deformations, vibration modes, contact behavior, and optimization options.
Provides standard structural analysis results, such as von Mises stresses, displacements, and temperatures. Using the intuitive equation-driven result plot, you can customize the post-processing of structural analysis results for better understanding and interpretation.
Communicate simulation results and collaborate with eDrawings using customized reports.
It allows the calculation (with the post-processor) of particle motions (Particle Studies) or extraneous fluid flows (Tracer Studies) in the fluid flow without affecting it.
A fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) algorithm analyzes transient noise and converts a time signal to a complex frequency domain.
Ensure accurate thermal analysis by including semi-permeable materials.
There are a variety of HVAC applications. The optimization of airflow, the control of temperature, air quality, and the control of containment are all important factors for meeting thermal performance requirements.
Thermal comfort factor analysis can be used to understand and evaluate thermal comfort levels in multiple environments.
- Heat Pipes
- Thermal Joints
- Two-resistor Components
- Printed Circuit Boards
- Thermoelectric Coolers
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SOLIDWORKS Training
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- Open enrollment courses or specialized courses
- Instructors who are certified in SOLIDWORKS
- Smaller and more focused classes