Turbomachinery
Turbomachinery simulation for pumps, fans and turbines
Rotating-machinery cases for impellers, rotors, fans and turbine stages, with the cavitation check pump work needs and the modal and thermal-stress passes on the parts that spin. The rotating frame is a case type rather than a setup exercise.
Questions this answers
- What is the head-flow curve of this impeller?
- Where does this pump cavitate, and at what NPSH?
- What does this fan do against the system it is installed in?
- What are the natural frequencies of the rotating part?
- What does the temperature field do to the stress in this stage?
The analysis types that do it
Each of these is a case type in the application, not a configuration you assemble. Every one runs in the free build — the free tier limits mesh size and cores, never which physics you may use.
And in the other modules
Structural, thermal and electromagnetics ship alongside fluids. Only the types that run today are listed.
Backends underneath
simpleFoampimpleFoamoverPimpleDyMFoaminterPhaseChangeFoambuoyantSimpleFoambuoyantPimpleFoambuoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoamlaplacianFoam
Open-source solvers, selected and configured from the case type. You can still read every dictionary the application writes.
When it will not fit on your machine
Paid accounts can send meshing and solving to SHD Cloud and keep working locally. The estimate is shown before the run starts.
What this does not do
- Rotordynamics is available in the structural module, but no meanline or 1D design tools are included.
- No meanline or 1D design tools. This analyses a geometry you already have.
- Full-annulus unsteady stage interaction is expensive and is not preset for you.
Naming a sector here says the physics suits the work. It is not a claim that anyone in it is a customer.