CFDExpert™

Specification

CFDExpert™ is advanced multi-purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics ( CFD ) software for engineering design. It has end-to-end capabilities from design to analysis. CFDExpert™ is an ideal tool in industrial environment, where cost effective solutions are required on routine basis. The industry verticals where CFDExpert™ can play role are aerospace, automobile, energy, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, etc.

 
Benefits

CFDExpert is full fledged Computational Fluid Dynamic analysis software that will help in solving high level industrial problems in variety of industries.

CFDExpert saves remarkable amounts of experimental effort, man-hours and capital in the high-end engineering sector, especially aerospace, automotive chemical, structural and civil engineering.

CFDExpert serves as a ‘virtual laboratory’ tool for institutions, which cannot bear the expenses of a full aerodynamic experimental installation.

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General Features
Portable on a wide range of platforms: Unix; Linux; Windows; and Macintosh
Is available on a wide range of pricing based on annual, perpetual, number of nodes, number of users, and the extent of usages
Enables scientists to write their own tools for geometric modeler, meshing, solvers and visualization; and freely enter or exit laterally
Facilitates repetitive jobs by using scripting
Enables remote simulation through encryption - highly useful for strategic applications
Ready availability and accessibility of IIT faculty and scientists to guide in the simulation work undertaken using CFDExpert™
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Modules

CFDExpert™ is a combination of four basic modules:

ShapeZ™ for Geometry Creation
GridZ™ for Grid Generation
FlowZ™ for Solving
ViewZ™ for Post Processing
 
ShapeZ™
Incorporates a built-in surface modeler
Includes all kinds of entities such as points, line segments, planes, curves, trim curves and trim surfaces
Supports NURB based representation
Enables on demand rapid modeling based on any given design parameters
Incorporates multiple file formats such as DXF, IGES, STL, Dicom and STEP
Provides data bank of NACA, NASA and other Airfoils and commonly used shapes
 
GridZ™
Is multi-platform: Linux, MS Windows and Macintosh; and is therefore widely applicable;
Incorporates: Hybrid Grid, Moving Grid and Adaptive Grid and enables the user to develop specialized meshes suitable for his industry vertical.
Requires very short grid generation time; ensures speedy execution of CFD projects; yet it yields a fast and accurate Simulation.
Is modular, user-friendly, easily-manageable, modifiable (to include new features), robust and consistent;
Meets the common requirements of all CFD package users and provides easy to use and readily available tool-tips
Is unbeatable in its ease-of-use in advanced CFD grid generation; is expandable for future utilities; and addresses CFD simulation problems of the next decade;
 
FlowZ™
FlowZ™ is a generic solver offers both pressure and density based solvers. It has several numerical schemes capable of working for a large range of Reynolds Numbers, Mach Numbers and Turbulence Models. Serious users and scientists can create their own high fidelity simulations and simulate a variety of physical and chemical phenomena by simply configuring the control file in the solver. The solver is fully compatible with CFD General Notations System (CGNS) � an ISO file format.
The following indicate the scope of application of FlowZ™. The software:
Enables the solution of density based, pressure based, pseudo incompressible PDEs.
Incorporates almost all known numerical schemes from literature.
Includes modeling capabilities for adiabatic, non-adiabatic, reactive, non-reactive, mono-phase, multi-phase, single or multi-species.
Allows conduction, convection or radiation modeling in heat transfer simulations.
Is applicable for large range of Reynolds No. and Mach Numbers.
Allows user to choose form various turbulence models: Algebraic, one Equation or Two Equations.
Permits the use of multiple CPU on cluster of PCs and a HPC.
Incorporates various physical chemical processes such as droplet evaporation and combustion, etc.
 
ViewZ™
Incorporates post processing as a standard module
Displays color plots, contour plots on a grid plane or a plane or an iso-surface
Produces vector plots on a grid plane, plane or a surface or an iso-surface
Plots variables using new functions which are created and defined
Reports integrated values for load, moment etc.
 
Salient Features
CFDExpert™ has a pressure and density based solvers
Structural grid configuration
CFDTutor™ is software which is the only one of its kind. This product aims to train the beginners to execute programs to solve problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It can be used by anyone interested in learning or teaching CFD. CFDTutor™ helps in simulating 2-D flows. But provides many options to the user to experiment and learn CFD. The User Manual provides a basic introduction to CFD.
The following indicate the scope of application of our CFDTutor™
Engineering students use CFDTutor™ to learn the CFD cycle and identify what goes into executing a CFD problem.
Professors use CFDTutor™ as a teaching aid to demonstrate flow motion especially as the fluid model changes from simple to complex.
Developers use CFDTutor™ to validate CFD code written by novices
Engineers use CFDTutor™ as a training tool to train manpower to execute CFD problems.
Engineering Institutions can creatively use the CFDTutor™ to complement some of the experiments; or substitute expensive or difficult-to-carry out experiments in a full-fledged Fluid Mechanics laboratory.