Abaqus/CFD

Abaqus/CFD provides advanced, scalable and parallel, computational fluid dynamics for a broad range of simulations. These cover an extensive range of fluid-structural and nonlinear coupled fluid-thermal problems. This simulation software is supported within the Abaqus/CAE giving the user the easy to use and efficient interface they need to perform Simulations both quickly and effectively.

Typical simulations that Abaqus/CFD can solve using incompressible flow are detailed below:

• Both external and internal flows of complex geometry that are in steady-state or a transient condition can be simulated over a broad Reynolds number range. This also includes flow simulations induced by spatially varying distributed body forces.
• Thermal convective simulations involving heat transfer such as natural convection. These simulations also include turbulent heat transfer over a large range of Prandtl numbers.
• Where the simulations require a deforming mesh typically for FSI problems, where the boundary motion is relatively independent of the fluid flow, and where boundary motion induces fluid flow. This is achieved in Abaqus/CFD using an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) description of the equations of motion, heat transfer, and turbulent transport.