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Functional Value
Automatically extract exterior volumes from non-watertight Designer Centric models
R2025x FD03
Functional Value
Compute forces easily through new support for fluids results in Resultant Sensor feature in Physics Results Explorer
Benefit from enhanced streamlines feature with new coloring by field variable, additional streamline styles, and ability to duplicate
Extract interior fluid volumes more efficiently by controlling the maximum interior gap size to automatically close non-watertight
Designer Centric models
User Experience Value
Explore quickly fluid solution details by using the new Slice command, created in one operation
Benefit from a streamlined user experience to setup and review fluids simulations with key usability improvements to the physics manager
Easily simulate industrial workflows like tank sloshing and concept hydrodynamics design with an enhanced user experience for setting up multiphase simulations
Easily simulate industrial workflows involving thermal radiation and solar loads with an enhanced user experience for setting up radiation simulations
R2025x FD02
Functional Value
Investigate easily the results distribution (such as pressure) on sections of the model by creating the path from a field section
User Experience Value
Intuitively idealize the geometry for your fluids simulation with ability to visualize enclosure offsets prior to idealization
Intuitively idealize the geometry for your fluids simulation with ability to visualize cutting plane prior to idealization
Reduce user time spent during geometry idealization with the ability to update compute intensive geometry extraction features in the background while continuing to work on other tasks without interruption
R2025x FD01
Functional Value
Measure easily values averaged across multiple frames with redesigned time selection for Sensors in Physics Results Explorer
Investigate flow behaviors more intuitively with new interactive plane resizing of Field Sections and Streamlines placement
User Experience Value
Idealize non-watertight geometries efficiently for simulation creation by automatic extraction of fluid domains
Diagnose fluid domain extractions and detect very thin or singular cavities to prevent meshing issues
Enhance the Assistant with access to key geometry idealization commands
Benefit from streamlined and intuitive simulation creation through enhanced Fluid Scenario Creation app
Efficiently create multi-material models through robust & automated conformal meshing
Explore results more easily with enhanced user experience for Display Groups in Physics Results Explorer
Benefit from new Selection Groups command to easily define and reuse groups of geometry, mesh, scenario or results features
R2025x GA
Functional Value
Perform faster, more reliable Fluid Flow simulations through enhanced solution algorithms that increase speed, robustness & scalability
User Experience Value
Explore Fluid Flow results more easily in Physics Results Explorer with only the commands relevant for Fluids users shown automatically
Easily explore volume results with a new high interactive mode for moving field sections in Physics Results Explorer
R2024x FD04
Functional Value
Achieve higher accuracy for open-channel flows with the addition of new boundary conditions
Quickly gain insight for complex flow paths with faster and interactive computation of streamlines in Physics Results Explorer
User Experience Value
Easily perform geometry idealization for external flow applications with the ability to create padded enclosures around a set of parts
Easily perform geometry idealization for external flow applications with the ability to extract the flow volume external to an object
Easily mesh extracted fluid cavities with hex-dominant meshing via an improved algorithm
Explore Fluid Flow results faster in Physics Results Explorer application with key performance enhancements for fluids results outputs from local or cloud compute simulations
Experience game changing performance improvements of cloud results visualization for large models
Easily generate lids on complex geometries with a few clicks via selection of multiple faces during lid creation
R2024x FD03
Functional Value
Achieve faster and more robust solutions for fluid flow and heat transfer applications through improved default linear solver
User Experience Value
Explore fluid simulation results quickly and easily for Designer Centric workflows in Physics Results Explorer with improved KPI extraction and 3D interactive visualizations
Easily & quickly interrogate simulation results via a re-designed & dedicated user interface for iso-surfaces
Save time and increase understanding of simulation results via a re-designed user interface for XY plots
Easily perform geometry idealization with the ability to filter the results to remove undesired sub-volumes.
Save time during results processing via improved performance of plot sectioning
Experience reduced turnaround time for fluids simulation jobs with faster saving of results
Extract easily and efficiently interior fluid volumes from non-watertight Designer Centric models
R2024x FD02
Functional Value
Achieve higher accuracy for simulations involving rotating devices with the addition of a new sliding mesh capability
User Experience Value
- Benefit from an improved user experience to set up sensors to interrogate fluid flow and heat transfer simulation results with the ability to preview sensors computations before creation
- Experience faster results visualization & analysis with the ability to increase the number of cores used for results processing in the user preferences
R2024x FD01
User Experience Value
- Save time and increase understanding of simulation results via a re-designed user interface for plot sectioning
- Experience game-changing performance improvements of cloud results visualization for large models
- Save time for setting up mainstream workflows such as tank sloshing via the ability to specify body force as an acceleration
- Idealize watertight geometries efficiently for mainstream workflows and prepare them for Fluid Model creation by automatic extraction of fluid and/or solid sub-domains
- Improve usability and efficiency of simulation model preparation with the new Geometry Idealization Essentials app.
R2024x GA
User Experience Value
- Easily setup fluid applications involving porous media through ability to specify porous media characteristics using P-V curves
- Experience game-changing performance improvements of cloud results visualization for large models
R2023x FD04
Functional Value
- Achieve more accurate solutions for thermal workflows such as exhaust systems with combined radiative and convective heat transfer to ambient boundary conditions
- Achieve robust solutions for fluid flow and heat transfer applications via core solver improvements
User Experience Value
- Benefit from improved user experience to setup field sensors to interrogate fluid flow and heat transfer simulation results
- Gain more flexibility over the simulation setup via the ability to activate and de-activate scenario and model features
- Interrogate easily simulation results for multi-domain applications via the ability to automatically extract field and history variables on both sides of an interface
Easily compute averaged temperature at multiple supports and difference of averaged temperature between multiple supports with the improved user experience to setup field sensors.
R2023x FD03
User Experience Value
- Save time and effort to exchange information from structural to fluid simulations with streamlined user experience
- Achieve more efficient setup for bearing thermal simulations via the ability to reference local coordinate systems within user subroutines for heat source specification
- Efficiently interrogate results of external flow simulations via the ability to author fluid streamlines completely through the 3D viewer increasing intuitiveness and reducing user task time
- Benefit from improved user experience to setup history sensors to interrogate fluid flow and heat transfer simulation results
New intuitive and interactive positioning of Streamlines in Physics Results Explorer for Internal and External Flow Simulations
Simplified Creation of History Sensor for Pressure Drop and handling for multiple Supports.
R2023x FD02
Functional Value
- Achieve robust solutions for fluid flow and heat transfer applications via core solver improvements
- Deliver increased product confidence by expanding customer-facing physics validation guide with more physics coverage
User Experience Value
- Save time to create steady-state and transient fluid simulations through the new analysis case initialization dialog
Simplified setup for defining steady-state/transient analysis
R2023x FD01
Functional Value
- Perform faster fluid flow and heat transfer workflows with extended options for defining volumetric local mesh controls
- Save time when meshing watertight geometries via geometric-based fluid domain extraction
- Achieve more accurate solutions for applications involving high temperature and high pressure gases such as tank filling via addition of real gas models
- Implement robust fluid flow and heat transfer workflows with core solver improvements
User Experience Value
- Benefit from improved user experience for reviewing simulation features via an enhanced simulation assistant
- Efficiently interrogate simulations results via the ability to author fluid streamlines completely through the 3D viewer increasing intuitiveness and reducing user task time
Increased intuitiveness and reduced user task time to interrogate simulations results via the ability to author streamlines completely through the 3D viewer using a simplified command
R2022x FD04
Functional Value
- Reduced turnaround time for simulation initialization when dealing with a large (750+) number of interfaces across domains via improvements to the contact algorithm
- Significant turnaround time improvements for concept external aerodynamics workflows for A&D customers via release of new euler solver for inviscid flow computations
User Experience Value
- Reduced user effort for simulation setup by creation of default history output requests based on boundary conditions and ability to use boundary conditions as supports for output requests
Automatic creation of default history output requests based on boundary conditions and ability to use boundary conditions as supports for output requests
Evaluate aerodynamics workflows faster during the concept phase with the new Euler equation solver for inviscid flow
R2022x FD03
Functional Value
- Reduce the turnaround time for multiphase simulations via ability to run the multiphase solver at a time step different from the global time step
- Reduce or eliminate user task time spent in achieving simulation convergence via improved default settings for solver numerics
- Quickly get feedback on meshing settings used and resolution of the model captured for medium sized (< 50M elements) models by meshing using local resources via reduced memory consumption for hex-dominant meshing
User Experience Value
- Democratize the use of electronics cooling component models to designers/product engineers for mainstream applications via simplified setup for compact heat sink component models
- Run and monitor multiple simulations concurrently by permitting simulation monitoring when running jobs in non-interactive execution mode
- Improved results visualization when dealing with non-uniform mesh distributions via mesh-independent visualization for symbol plots
Visualize vectors on a regular grid that is independent of the mesh
Interactively monitor simulations run using local non-interactive execution mode
Simplified setup for compact heat sink electronics cooling component model
R2022x FD02
User Experience Value
- Reduced turnaround time and software cost to easily detect simulation errors, make corrections and re-run simulation via allowing the user to visualize field results and perform results processing during the solve
- Democratize the use of electronics cooling component models to designers/product engineers for mainstream applications via simplified setup for perforated plates
Diagnose simulation errors quickly and easily by having the ability to analyze and visualize field results during solve
Democratize the use of electronics cooling component models to designers and product engineers via a simplified design specification method for perforated plates
R2022x FD01
Functional Value
- Increased performance for multiphase applications via addition of automatic convergence acceleration techniques
- Increased accuracy for multiphase applications via the ability to account for the compressibility of the lighter phase
- Improved solver accuracy and stability for a broad range of use cases by providing access to expert solution settings
- Increased accuracy for external aerodynamics applications by improved treatment of high aspect ratio cells near the wall using the coupled solver
Ability to account for compressibility of the lighter phase in multiphase applications as evident in the example of the application of a moving piston in an adiabatic chamber containing water and air
R2022x GA
Functional Value
- Faster turnaround time for capturing thermal response of electronics cooling assemblies using reduced-order flow and thermal modelling to mimic behavior of electronics cooling components such as thermo-electric coolers and compact heat sinks
Faster turnaround time for capturing thermal response of electronics cooling assemblies using reduced-order flow and thermal modelling to mimic behavior of electronics cooling components such as thermo-electric coolers and compact heat sinks
R2021x FD07
Functional Value
- Faster and more robust model build process for large assemblies (100+ parts) using surface wrapping of selected parts of input geometry prior to fluid domain extraction and volume meshing
- Increased flexibility for cloud execution by allowing users to override automatic selection of compute cores for their simulations
Increased robustness and reduced user effort for model build process of large assemblies using surface wrapping of selected parts of input geometry prior to fluid domain extraction and volume meshing
Increased user flexibility for cloud compute execution by provding manual selection of compute cores for running simulations
R2021x FD06
Functional Value
- Reduce time to meet engineering performance targets with the new Parametric Design Study app by easily launching an automated design exploration to simulate a large number of alternatives and quickly identifying the best performing designs.
- Faster turnaround time for capturing thermal response of electronics cooling assemblies using reduced-order flow and thermal modelling to mimic behavior of electronics cooling components such as heat pipes, perforated plates, 2-resistor compact package models and blowers
Reduce time to meet engineering performance targets with the new Parametric Design Study app by easily launching an automated design exploration to simulate a large number of alternatives and quickly identifying the best performing designs.
Faster turnaround time for capturing thermal response of electronics cooling assemblies using simplified thermal modeling (not related to geometry) in flow scenario to mimic behavior of electronics cooling components
R2021x FD04
Functional Value
- Lagrangian particle physics support for applications involving movement and deposition of solid particles entrained by the fluid flow
- Ability to import an existing result as initial conditions for a downstream step
User Experience Value
- Faster simulation setup via streamlined user experience to define and mesh computational domain
Faster simulation setup via streamlined user experience to define and mesh computational domain.
Ability to import an existing result as initial conditions for a downstream step.
Lagrangian particle physics support for applications involving movement and deposition of solid particles entrained by the fluid flow.
