FEA Codes: ANSYS (hand calculated boundary conditions mapped onto FEA models.
CFD Codes: Star-CCM+, Flow-3D, Cosmos Floworks
Capabilities offered by the combination of these codes are as follows:
· Validation
· Design Optimization Studies
· Fluid Structure Interaction
· Thermal Stress Analysis (static and transient)
· Porous Media
· Time Dependency
Ø Steady-State
Ø Implicit and Explicit unsteady
· Turbulence
Ø K-Epsilon
Ø K-Omega
Ø Reynolds Stress
Ø Spalart-Allmaras
Ø Large Eddy Simulation (LES)
Ø Detached Eddy Simulation
· Moving Mesh
Ø Dynamic Fluid Body Interaction
Ø Rigid Body Motion
Ø Mesh Morphing
Ø Multiple Reference Frames (MRF)
· Compressibility
Ø Ideal Gas
Ø Real Gas
· Heat Transfer
Ø Conduction
Ø Convection
Ø Radiation
Ø Solar Radiation
· Multi-Phase
Ø Lagrangian Particle Tracking
Ø Eulerian Multi-Phase
Ø VOF
Ø Cavitation & Boiling
Ø Melting & Solidification
· Combustion and Chemical Kinetics
Ø Eddy Break Up (EBU)
Ø Presumed Probability Density Function (PPDF)
Ø Detailed Complex Chemistry