Panel FlowSymLab Panel Flow simulates gas (e.g. air) or liquid (e.g. water) flow around and through your design, helping you view the physical effects of the fluid on your design and vice versa.
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Designed for use by engineers who are not Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) experts, the SymLab Panel Flow interface uses standard physics terms to help you easily navigate the simulation setup and quickly obtain meaningful results.
SymLab Panel Flow is flexible and can be used for a variety of design applications including aircraft, boats, submersibles, and cars. You can quickly and easily simulate idealized (potential flow) gases (e.g. air) and liquids (e.g. water) to determine flow directions and the lift or downforce.
SymLab Panel Flow is ideally suited for problems that are:
- Irrotational (no cyclones, etc.)
- Inviscid (streamlined bodies, e.g. aircraft, cars)
- Incompressible (Mach number << 1) (Compressible corrections are available)
These assumptions allow fast turnaround using a surface-based panel method analysis technique.
Check out Panel Flow examples and tutorials.
SymLab Panel Flow is an add-on to SymLab, and provides the following capabilities:
Features
- Simulate external fluid flow over the exterior of your model
- Simulate internal flow through your model
- Take advantage of any symmetry within your model, and get your results up to 4 times faster
- Study transient flow (when combined with geometry motion capabilities provided by the Transient add-on)
- Enable compressible corrections which extend the range of Mach numbers to the high subsonic range (< 1)
- Generate geometry-based wakes for lifting configurations such as wings
- Pipeline Driven Technology to automate and simplify upstream simulation prerequisites such as meshing
Easy, geometry-based simulation setup
- Intuitive, geometry-based physics specifications, via Drag'n'Drop
- Domain rather than solution technique terminology
- Automated meshing
- Intuitive, geometry-based accuracy control where [NEW] geometry can influence unconnected simluation geometry
- New derived variables can be created via Drag'n'Drop
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