Energy & power
Simulation for energy, power generation and renewables
Turbine and pump internals, combustion and burner work, boiling and condensation in heat-transfer equipment, the atmospheric boundary layer a wind site sits in, and the electromagnetics of the machines at the end of it. Generation covers an unusually wide span of physics, and most of that span is in the catalogue.
Questions this answers
- What is the performance of this rotor or impeller across its operating range?
- How does this burner behave, and where is the flame?
- What happens in this heat exchanger when the fluid changes phase?
- What is the wind resource and the wake behaviour across this site?
- What are the fields and forces in this machine?
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
simpleFoampimpleFoamoverPimpleDyMFoamreactingFoamXiFoamsprayFoaminterCondensatingEvaporatingFoambuoyantSimpleFoam
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
- No plant or network modelling. This solves components and volumes, not balance-of-plant flowsheets.
- Nuclear qualification, and the QA regime that goes with it, is out of scope entirely.
- Wind farm annual energy yield is not computed — the flow field is, the yield model is not.
Naming a sector here says the physics suits the work. It is not a claim that anyone in it is a customer.