SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Training Course
Course Description: The two-day training program provides an indepth session on the basics of fluid flow analysis, in addition to covering meshing concerns, modeling concerns, analysis, post-processing, available options and preferences.
Course Length: 2 Days
Prerequisites: Some experience using SOLIDWORKS
Topics
Basics of Fluid Flow
- Fluid Flow Definitions
- Governing Equations
- Meshing principles
- Monitoring convergence
Running
- Meshing concerns
- Modeling concerns
- Applying boundary conditions
- Post-processing (vectors, contours, iso-lines, particle tracking)
- Global data (mass/energy balance, bulk values, et cetera)
- Analysis Types
- Steady State
- Transient
- Conjugate heat transfer
- Open/closed systems
Flow Features
- Compressible and incompressible
- Newtonian / non-Newtonian fluid
- Fan Curves
- Particle trajectories
- Supersonic flows
- Cavitation
- Relative humidity
- Conjugate heat transfer
Advanced Features within SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
- Manual mesh control
- Manual convergence
- Export of results to SOLIDWORKS Simulation modulus (stress analysis)
Introduction
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Lesson 1: Creating a SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Project
- Objectives
- Case Study: Manifold Assembly
- Model Preparation
- Post-processing
- Discussion
- Summary
Lesson 2: Meshing
- Objectives
- Case Study: Chemistry Hood
- Project Description
- Computational Mesh
- Basic Mesh
- Initial Mesh
- Geometry Resolution
- Result Resolution/Level of Initial Mesh
- Control Planes
- Summary
Lesson 3: Thermal Analysis
- Objectives
- Case Study: Electronics Enclosure
- Project Description
- Fans
- Perforated Plates
- Discussion
- Summary
- Exercise 5: Materials with Orthotropic Thermal Conductivity
Lesson 4: External Transient Analysis
- Objectives
- Case Study: Flow Around a Cylinder
- Problem Description
- Reynolds Number
- External Flow
- Transient Analysis
- Turbulence Intensity
- Solution Adaptive Mesh Refinement
- Two Dimensional Flow
- Computational Domain
- Calculation Control Options
- Time Animation
- Discussion
- Summary
- Exercise 6: Electronics Cooling
Lesson 5: Conjugate Heat Transfer
- Objectives
- Case Study: Heated Cold Plate
- Project Description
- Conjugate Heat Transfer
- Real Gases.
- Summary Exercise 7: Heat Exchanger with Multiple Fluids
Lesson 6: EFD Zooming
- Objectives
- Case Study: Electronics Enclosure
- Project Description
- EFD Zooming
- Summary.
Lesson 7: Porous Media
- Objectives
- Case Study: Catalytic Converter
- Problem Description
- Porous Media
- 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
- Part 2: Sliding Mesh
- Case Study: Blower Fan
- Problem Description
- Tangential Faces of Rotors
- Time Step
- Summary
Lesson 9: Parametric Study
- Objectives
- Case Study: Piston Valve
- Problem Description
- Parametric Analysis
- Steady State Analysis
- Part 1: Goal Optimization
- Part 2: Design Scenario
- Part 3: Multi parameter Optimization
- Summary
- Exercise 9: Variable Geometry Dependent Solution
Lesson 10: Cavitation
- Objectives
- Case Study: Cone Valve
- Problem Description
- Cavitation
- Discussion
- Summary
Lesson 11: Relative Humidity
- Objectives
- Relative Humidity
- Case Study: Cook House
- Problem Description
- Summary.
Lesson 12: Particle Trajectory
- Objectives
- Case Study: Hurricane Generator
- Problem Description
- Particle Trajectories
- Summary
Lesson 13: Supersonic Flow
- Objectives
- Supersonic Flow
- Case Study: Conical Body
- Problem Description
- Discussion
- Summary
Lesson 14: FEA Load Transfer
- Objectives
- Case Study: Billboard
- Problem Description
- Summary