Flow simulation

SOLIDWORKS Simulation is fully integrated into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD for ease of use and data integrity. Using the same user interface (UI) paradigms as in SOLIDWORKS, with toolbars, menus, and context-sensitive context menus, ensures quick familiarization. Built-in tutorials and online search assist in learning and troubleshooting.

• Fluid flows can be described as incompressible, compressible, or non-Newtonian (like oil, blood, sauce, etc.).
• For water flows, the location of cavitation can also be determined.

Calculation of both ideal and real flows for subsonic, transonic, and supersonic conditions.

• The modeling solution time can be reduced by taking advantage of symmetry.
• Cartesian symmetry can be applied to the planes x, y, or z.
• The ice sector period allows users to calculate the sector of the cylindrical flow.

Allows modeling flows with a freely moving interface between two immiscible fluids, such as gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, gas-non-Newtonian liquid.

The ability to model moving/rotating surfaces or parts to calculate the effect of rotating/moving devices.

Enable the buoyancy of the fluid, important for natural convection, free surface, and mixing problems.

The calculation of temperature change in the volumetric geometry of the product is an optional choice. A conjugate heat transfer can be created through convection, conduction, and radiation. The calculations may include thermal contact resistance.

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation: calculation of pure thermal conductivity in solids to identify issues where no fluid is present for quick resolution.

By default, all calculations are performed in the full three-dimensional domain. Where applicable, modeling can also be done in a 2D plane to reduce execution time without compromising accuracy.

Calculate the impact of fluid flow around your product.

Calculate the impact of fluid flow through your product.

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation: the customizable engineering database allows users to model and include specific solid body, fluid, and fan modes.

• Compressible gas/liquid and incompressible liquid flows
• Subsonic, transonic, and supersonic gas flows.
• The ability to account for heat transfer by conduction in liquid, solid, and porous media. It can be with or without conjugate heat transfer (liquid-solid) and with/without thermal resistance (solid-solid).

Conduct an optimization study for more than one input variable using experimental design and parametric optimization research. Run the calculation of the calculation points and find the optimal solutions.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation supports SOLIDWORKS materials and configurations for convenient analysis of multiple loads and product configurations.

For streams that include steam, the condensation of water vapor and relative humidity are calculated.

Laminar, turbulent, and transitional boundary layers are calculated using a modified approach of the Law of the Wall.

Immiscible mixtures: perform the flow of any pair of liquids belonging to gases, liquids, or non-Newtonian fluids.

Determine the behavior of non-Newtonian fluid flows, such as oil, blood, sauce, etc.

Problems can be defined by conditions of speed, pressure, mass, or volumetric flow rate.

The thermal characteristics of liquids and solids can be specified locally and globally for precise tuning.

For precise tuning, local and global thermal conditions and wall roughness conditions can be specified.

The ability to consider certain components of the model as porous media with fluid flow through them or to model them as liquid cavities with distributed resistance to fluid flow.

Visualize the stress and displacement of the assembly using customizable 3D graphics. Animate the assembly’s response under load to visualize deformations, vibration modes, contact behavior, optimization options, and flow trajectories.

Provides standard result components for structural analysis, such as von Mises stresses, displacements, temperature, etc. An intuitive results chart based on equations allows customization of post-processing of structural analysis results for better understanding and interpretation of product behavior.

Create and publish customizable reports to share simulation results and collaborate with eDrawings®.

The ability to calculate (with a post-processor) in the obtained fields of results of movements of specified particles (Particle Studies) or flows of specified foreign fluids (Tracer Study) in the liquid flow, which do not affect this liquid flow.

Noise prediction using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, which transforms a time signal into the complex frequency domain for the analysis of transient processes.