Applications
The jobs, rather than the physics.
Each application below is a recurring engineering question and the case types that answer it. Same catalogue as the analysis-type pages, entered from the problem instead of from the equations.
Data centre coolingAir distribution through a hall, the recirculation that causes hot spots, and rack-level thermal behaviour where the air and the hardware are solved together. Runs as conjugate heat transfer when the solid matters, and as a frozen-flow thermal pass when the flow field has settled and only the temperature is in question.4 CFD analysis types · 2 more across the other modulesElectronics thermal managementGetting heat out of a board, a module or a sealed enclosure — by air, by conduction, or by a heatsink that may or may not be earning its volume. Conjugate heat transfer solves the air and the solid in one case, which is what an electronics thermal question almost always needs.4 CFD analysis types · 3 more across the other modulesTurbomachineryRotating-machinery cases for impellers, fans and turbine stages, with cavitation, modal and thermal-stress passes alongside.5 CFD analysis types · 3 more across the other modulesValves & flow controlPressure drop and flow coefficient through valves and manifolds, with cavitation, choking and the stress in the body.5 CFD analysis types · 2 more across the other modulesMultiphase flowFree-surface, geometric VOF, Eulerian, drift-flux and boiling formulations, each a distinct case type rather than one setting.8 CFD analysis typesUrban microclimateWind at ground level around buildings, the boundary layer that study has to be run inside, and the dispersion of exhaust and pollutants across a site. The comfort workflow depends entirely on the inflow being right, which is why the boundary layer is its own case type rather than an inlet condition you improvise.4 CFD analysis types