This core package includes steady-state and transient heat transfer analysis; steady and unsteady fluid flow analysis; FEMPRO, an easy-to-use, single user interface for finite element modeling, results evaluation and presentation; and a suite of modeling capabilities.

Heat transfer analysis capabilities solve linear and nonlinear thermal designs by considering conduction, convection, heat flux, heat generation, radiation and thermal contact in steady state or transient analyses.

Fluid flow analysis capabilities solve steady and unsteady flow patterns for incompressible, laminar, Newtonian or non-Newtonian fluid flow. Turbulence capabilities enable the prediction of turbulent flow (large changes in velocity over small distances) and laminar flow (smooth, gradual changes in velocity distribution) at the same time in the same model.

Combined heat transfer and fluid flow analysis capabilities allow engineers to simulate a product's behavior when both thermal and fluid flow factors interact. User-friendly tools and wizards automate the application of results from one type of analysis to another for coupled heat transfer and fluid flow analysis to accurately simulate natural, forced or mixed convection.

TYPICAL APPLICATIONS

Aerodynamic testing Annealing Brake system design Contained-flow simulation Cooling/heating system design Drag reduction Electronic components design Solar cell design Wear analysis Exhaust manifold design Flows with constrictions Head loss Headlight design Heat exchanger simulation Heat pipes HVAC analysis Thermal loss study Hydrodynamic testing Lighting analysis Lubrication analysis Mold design Piping system analysis Plant startup studies Quenching Weld design

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ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES

Steady-state heat transfer Transient heat transfer Steady fluid flow with turbulence Flow through porous media Joule heating Velocity profiling Weight, center of gravity and mass moment of inertia

Steady fluid flow Unsteady fluid flow Unsteady fluid flow with turbulence Multiple, independent fluids Viscous heating Residence time Fluid-solid interaction

Thermal stress Thermal contact Gravity-driven flow analysis Forced convection Viscous flow Vortex shedding simulation Natural convection (buoyancy)

MODELING

• InCAD technology for direct CAD/CAE data exchange with Alibre Design, Autodesk Inventor, Inovate, IronCAD, KeyCreator, Mechanical Desktop, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Edge and SolidWorks
• Full associativity with each design change for Alibre Design, Autodesk Inventor, Inovate, IronCAD, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Edge and SolidWorks
• CAD support for Rhinoceros
• CAD support for 3-D solid models in ACIS, IGES, STEP and STL file formats
• CAD support for 2-D and 3-D wireframe geometry in CDL, DXF and IGES file formats
• Ability to create a CAD Transfer Utility installation package to provide direct data exchange even when ALGOR and the CAD package (Alibre Design, Autodesk Inventor, Inovate, IronCAD, KeyCreator, Mechanical Desktop, Pro/ENGINEER, Solid Edge or SolidWorks) reside on separate computers
• Capability to open CAD models in ALGOR even if the CAD package (Alibre Design, Autodesk Inventor, Inovate, IronCAD, KeyCreator, Mechanical Desktop, Pro/ENGINEER, Rhinoceros, Solid Edge or SolidWorks) is not open
• A user-controlled feature suppression tool with the option to suppress details either manually or based on feature size
• Ability to merge parts from any CAD source into a single FEA model
• Part names from a CAD solid model captured in the FEA model
• Part colors from a CAD solid model captured in the FEA model
• Automatically selects the unit system based on the unit of length of the CAD solid model
• Superdraw 2- and 3-D sketching tools including capabilities to draw points, lines, rectangles, arcs, circles, splines and tangent lines and modify sketch objects with commands including copy, divide, fillet, intersect, rotate, mirror, move, parallel, trim/extend and delete
• Complex surface modeling using NURBS, polylines and b-splines
• Capability to combine all element types available for a given analysis type in a single model
• Capability to import FEA models that are stored in ABAQUS, ANSYS, FEMAP, NASTRAN, PATRAN or SDRC file formats

MESHING

2- and 3-D parametric, structured meshing options for 3-point triangular, 4-point rectangular, 8-point 3-D, between two objects and 4-object 3-D meshing Automatic, unstructured 2-D meshing Automatic, unstructured 3-D quadrilateral or triangular surface mesh generation and refinement Automatic, intelligent, feature-based mesh refinement and point-and-click definition of areas where a finer mesh is desired A midplane mesh engine for reducing thin, solid features in a CAD model to plate/shell elements with automatic handling of parts, assemblies, multi-thickness regions and mixed element type models Automatic, hex-dominant hybrid solid meshing to produce higher quality elements on the first pass and more accurate results One-step assembly meshing

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• Integrated environment for model visualization and results evaluation
• 3-D dynamic viewing options and rich colors provided by OpenGL-based displays
• Material and result rendering for model and analysis visualization
• Cross-sectional viewing options
• Dynamic clipping planes for slicing models
• Capability to display parts as transparent (translucent)
• Multiple methods for selecting parts or elements in order to hide areas of the model
• Result contours of:

  Static and time-dependent heat flow Fluid flow velocity Fluid flow vorticity Reaction force resulting from the flow of fluids Vector plots of fluid flow velocity Particle tracking of fluid flow Fluid flow streamlines

  Static and time-dependent heat flux Fluid flow pressure Stress tensor resulting from the flow of fluids Vector plots of principal stress directions Static and time-dependent temperature distribution Maximum principal and minimum principal stress resulting from the flow of fluids

• Annotations to highlight the location of minimum and maximum results
• Capability to define result probes at desired locations
• Annotation of graph values
• Capability to display or graph results in an arbitrary orientation using a local coordinate system
• Capability to simultaneously view varying result types through multiple view windows
• Text output of weight, volume, center of gravity, mass moment of inertia and products of inertia
• Precision contouring for accuracy assessment
• Automatic calculation of heat flow through a selected face/edge of a part
• Automatic transfer of temperature results to a stress analysis
• Automatic transfer of temperature results to a steady fluid flow analysis
• Automatic transfer of temperature results to an electrostatic analysis
• Automatic transfer of fluid flow velocity results to a steady-state heat transfer analysis
• Built-in, virtual instrumentation through Monitor for result graphs
• Capability to graph the magnitude; first, second and third derivative; and integral of time-dependent results
• Automatic display of units in the results legend
• Uses TrueType fonts for legend and annotations
• Dynamic controls for positioning the results legend, annotations and background images
• Pre-defined and user-defined color palettes for result contours
• Slider for controlling the display of elements based on a lower or upper result limit
• Capability to individually control the color, mesh and display of results for each part
• Point-and-click result inquiry options
• Inquire mode enables results from selected objects or load and constraint data to be displayed and available for copy and paste operations to other applications
• Result text listing
• Support for exporting results to common Windows applications
• Capability to save all settings for a specific presentation and view that same display at any time or use those settings with a different model

• VRML utility to generate 3-D, web-based models
• Output result contours and graphs as BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, PCX and TGA formats
• Integrated animation creation and display tools
• Automatic image generation of each result presentation for inclusion in reports
• Report Wizard and environment for automatic HTML generation and display

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