Description
Altair Flow Simulator Overview
Flow Simulator is an integrated software for fluid and gas flow, heat transfer and combustion design that combines simulation with fidelity to optimize the design of machines and systems.
This fluid system design tool enables multidisciplinary modeling and optimization within a single platform for fluid/thermal/combustion dynamics machine design in a 3D design environment. The tool allows users to import actual hardware and use a 3D CAD point cloud to automatically generate a computational model superimposed on the hardware. An extensive library of pre-configured elements/components is available to model or simulate a wide range of physics including compressible/incompressible fluid flow, buoyancy flow, rotating cavity system flow, conduction/convection/radiative heat transfer, equilibrium-equilibrium combustion and species transport. Eight combinations of analysis modes (steady state, quasi-steady state and transient analysis for fluid dynamics, heat and burn) are available to predict system/subsystem operating conditions during a cycle/flight simulation (flight mission, power ramp, shut down…etc). Control system components (proportional integral converter (PID) controllers, direct and instantaneous control functions) can be integrated with the computational model system/subsystem to optimize the operation of the simulated machine during a cycle/mission analysis.
Altair Flow Simulator Features
- Fast and accurate modeling of mixed-fidelity flows (1D, 2D and 3D) that handle complex geometry and long transient tasks. A flexible common platform that allows different groups to model relative to their verticals and thus combine to create system models.
- State-of-the-art graphical user interface with the ability to overlay/integrate 3D digital CAD with analytical models. The GUI is designed for design where Pre/Solver/and Post are built into one interface. A fully integrated optimization module provides the ability to quickly explore the entire design space in a 3D modeling environment; system models can be parameterized based on flow configuration, shape, size and thermal characteristics to achieve an optimal cost-benefit scheme.
- An extensive library of pre-configured elements/components using a large set of publicly available experimental data for pressure drop and heat transfer characteristics. This fully extensible platform provides customers with the ability to integrate their own IP and element formulations easily using Python scripts.
File Information
Year/Release Date : 2025
Version : 2025.0
Developer : Altair/GE
Developer’s website : www.altairhyperworks.com/partner/FlowSimulator
Bit depth : 64bit
Interface language : English
Tablet : present
System Requirements
Win 10/11 64-bit
