What is SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation?
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation gives product engineers access to powerful CFD (computational fluid dynamics) analysis capabilities that help enable them to speed up product innovation.
Leveraging the familiar SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD environment, this extensive technology isn’t just about making sure your product works, it’s about understanding how your product will behave in the real world.
Virtual Simulation Software
Product engineers and CFD experts alike, armed with the power of SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, can predict flow fields, mixing processes, and heat transfer, and directly determine pressure drop, comfort parameters, fluid forces, and fluid structure interaction during design.
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation enables true concurrent CFD, without the need for advanced CFD expertise.
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Get to know SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Capabilities
Built to tackle CFD engineering challenges, with CAD integration, advanced geometry meshing and flow capabilities.
"Evolve Design Solutions appreciates the excellent customer service, product knowledge and technical support provided by TriMech, our SOLIDWORKS Value Added Reseller (VAR).”
Aldo Balatti
Principal, Evolve Design Solutions
“Our engineering processes are well defined and well documented. I can tell new customers with confidence that we’re delivering on milestones because we’re tracking our performance on speed and quality every day.”
Ray Minator
Owner, Inertia Engineering + Design
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Features
Take the complexity out of flow analysis
Evaluate and optimize complex flows
SOLIDWORKS CFD analysis for liquid flow, gas flow, or heat transfer can help you deliver innovative designs and greater product efficiency. Typical problems solved include:
- Examine complex flows through and around your components with parametric analysis.
- Align your model with flow conditions, such as pressure drop, to satisfy design goals.
- Detect turbulences and recirculation issues with animated flow trajectories.
- Aerodynamic simulation to calculate lift and drag forces.
- Understand the flow of non-Newtonian liquids, such as blood and liquid plastic.
- Assess the impact of different impellers and fans on your design.
- Include sophisticated effects like porosity, cavitation, and humidity.
Reduce the risk of overheating in your designs
Easily investigate the impact of cooling and design changes on component temperatures using thermal fluid analysis in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation.
You can quickly determine the impact of fluids flowing in and around the design to ensure correct thermal performance, product quality, and safety.
- Visualize and understand temperature distribution in and around your products.
- Couple flow with thermal analysis, simulating convection, conduction, and radiation effects.
- Simulate advanced radiation with semitransparent material and wavelength-dependent radiative properties with the HVAC module.
- Apply time- and coordinate-dependent boundary conditions and heat sources.
- Find the best dimensions to satisfy your design goals, such as heat exchanger efficiency.
- Get thermal heat sources and PCB layer definition from EDA thermal properties.
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Packages
Three simulation packages to choose from
Package
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
A general parametric flow simulation tool that uses the Finite Volume Method (FVM) to calculate product performance through “what if” studies that allow you to perform optimization using the results.
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Electronic Cooling Module
The SOLIDWORKS Electronic Cooling module helps designers test and optimize the thermal performance of their PCB and electronic components.
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HVAC Applications Module
The SOLIDWORKS HVAC Applications Module helps designers / engineers test and optimize air and gas movement in working and living environments
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Matrix
Compare the different versions of SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation software
| Capability | SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation | HVAC Applications Module | Electronics Cooling Module |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ease of Use/Intuitiveness | ● | ● | ● |
| Concurrent Engineering | ● | ● | ● |
| Embedded in SOLIDWORKS | ● | ● | ● |
| Communication & Reports | ● | ● | ● |
| Post Processing | ● | ● | ● |
| Design Comparison Studies | ● | ● | ● |
| Fluid Flow Simulation | ● | ● | ● |
| Rotating Regions | ● | ● | ● |
| Thermal Fluid Simulation | - | ● | - |
| Enriched Library | - | ● | - |
| Enriched Library for HVAC | - | ● | - |
| Thermal Comfort Parameters Simulation | - | ● | - |
| Advanced Radiation Simulation | - | ● | - |
| Tracer Study | - | ● | - |
| Enriched Library for Electronic Cooling | - | - | ● |
| Dedicated Electronic Cooling Simulation | - | - | ● |
| Joule Heating Simulation | - | - | ● |
Looking for a Cloud Alternative?
3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured alternative to SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.
Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.
Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.
Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.
Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.
Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.