SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Training Course Overview
Designed to help you become productive faster, this introductory course offers hands-on training on the use of SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation software.
The training program provides an in depth session on the basics of turbulent fluid flow analysis, in addition to covering meshing concerns, modeling concerns, analysis, post-processing, available options and preferences.
This training course will help you to:
- Use SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation software to run fluid or air flow analysis on your designs such as the wing of an airplane, or an exhaust valve
- Perform PCB analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of cooling systems and understand the impact of fluid flow on temperature in electrical systems
Course Preview
Take a look at some of the studies you will be conducting in the SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation course
Flow Simulation Surface Plot
Velocity Analysis
HVAC Flow Simulation
Hot Air Flow Analysis
Supersonic Flow Cut Plane
Simulation Flow Trajectories
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Training Course Requirements & Benefits
Understand the course requirements and the skills you will acquire after completing the SOLIDWORKS course
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Lessons
The following lessons are included in the course
Lesson 1: Creating a SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Project
- Objectives
- Case Study: Manifold Assembly
- Problem Description
- Stages in the Process
- Model Preparation
- Internal Flow Analysis
- External Flow Analysis
- Manifold Analysis
- Lids
- Lid Thickness
- Manual Lid Creation
- Adding a Lid to a Part File
- Adding a Lid to an Assembly File
- Checking the Geometry
- Internal Fluid Volume
- Invalid Contacts
- Project Wizard
- Reference Axis
- Exclude Cavities Without Flow Conditions
- Adiabatic Wall
- Roughness
- Computational Domain
- Mesh
- Load Results Option
- Monitoring the Solver
- Goal Plot Window
- Warning Messages
- Post-processing
- Scaling the Limits of the Legend
- Changing Legend Settings
- Orientation of the Legend, Logarithmic Scale
- Discussion
- Summary
- Exercise 1: Air Conditioning Ducting
Lesson 2: Meshing
- Objectives
- Case Study: Chemistry Hood
- Project Description
- Computational Mesh
- Basic Mesh
- Initial Mesh
- Geometry Resolution
- Minimum gap Size
- Minimum wall thickness
- Result Resolution/Level of Initial Mesh
- Manual Global Mesh Settings
- Control Planes
- Summary
- Exercise 2: Square Ducting
- Exercise 3: Thin Walled Box
- Exercise 4: Heat Sink
- Exercise 5: Meshing Valve Assembly
- Boundary Conditions
Lesson 3: Thermal Analysis
- Objectives
- Case Study: Electronics Enclosure
- Project Description
- Fans
- Fan Curves
- Perforated Plates
- Free Area Ratio
- Discussion
- Summary
- Exercise 6: Materials with Orthotropic Thermal Conductivity
- Exercise 7: Electric Wire
- Summary
Lesson 4: External Transient Analysis
- Objectives
- Case Study: Flow Around a Cylinder
- Problem Description
- Stages in the Process
- Reynolds Number
- External Flow
- Transient Analysis
- Turbulence Intensity
- Solution Adaptive Mesh Refinement
- Two Dimensional Flow
- Computational Domain
- Calculation Control Options
- Finishing
- Refinement
- Solving
- Saving
- Drag Equation
- Unsteady Vortex Shedding
- Time Animation
- Discussion
- Summary
- Exercise 8: Electronics Cooling
Lesson 5: Conjugate Heat Transfer
- Objectives
- Case Study: Heated Cold Plate
- Project Description
- Stages in the Process
- Conjugate Heat Transfer
- Real Gases
- Goals Plot in the Solver Window
- Summary
- Exercise 9: Heat Exchanger with Multiple Fluids
Lesson 6: EFD Zooming Objectives
- Case Study: Electronics Enclosure
- Project Description
- EFD Zooming
- EFD Zooming - Computational Domain
- Summary
Lesson 7: Porous Media
- Objectives
- Case Study: Catalytic Converter
- Problem Description
- Stages in the Process
- Noise Prediction
- Broadband Model
- Porous Media
- Porosity
- Permeability Type
- Resistance
- Matrix and Fluid Heat Exchange
- Dummy Bodies
- Design Modification
- Discussion
- Summary
- Exercise 8: Channel Flow
Lesson 8: Rotating Reference Frames
- Objectives
- Rotating Reference Frame
- Part 1: Averaging
- Case Study: Table Fan
- Problem Description
- Stages in the Process
- Part 2: Sliding Mesh
- Case Study: Blower Fan
- Problem Description
- Tangential Faces of Rotors
- Time Step
- Time Step
- Part 3: Axial Periodicity
- Summary
- Exercise 11: Ceiling Fan
- Boundary Conditions
- Computational Domain
Lesson 9: Parametric Study
- Objectives
- Case Study: Piston Valve
- Problem Description
- Stages in the Process
- Parametric Analysis
- Steady State Analysis
- Parametric study
- Part 1: Goal Optimization
- Input Variable Types
- Target Value Dependence Types
- Output Variable Initial Values
- Running Optimization Study
- Part 2: Design Scenario
- Part 3: Multi parameter Optimization
- Summary
- Exercise 12: Variable Geometry Dependent Solution
- Boundary Conditions
Lesson 10: Free Surface
- Objectives
- Case Study: Water Tank
- Problem Description
- Free Surface
- Volume of Fluid (VOF)
- Summary
- Exercise 13: Water Jet
- Theoretical Results
- Summary
- Exercise 14: Dam-Break Flow
- Experimental Data
- Summary
- References
Lesson 11: Cavitation
- Objectives
- Case Study: Cone Valve
- Problem Description
- Cavitation
- Discussion
- Summary
Lesson 12: Relative Humidity
- Objectives
- Relative Humidity
- Case Study: Cook House
- Problem Description
- Summary
Lesson 13: Particle Trajectory Objectives
- Case Study: Hurricane Generator
- Problem Description
- Particle Trajectories - Overview
- Particle Study - Physical Settings
- Particle Study - Wall Condition
- Summary
- Exercise 10: Uniform Flow Stream
Lesson 14: Supersonic Flow
- Supersonic Flow
- Case Study: Conical Body
- Problem Description
- Drag Coefficient
- Shock Waves
- Discussion
- Summary
Lesson 15: FEA Load Transfer
- Objectives
- Case Study: Billboard
- Problem Description
- Summary
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