Process & industrial equipment
Simulation for process plant and industrial equipment
Mixing and blending, species transport and scalar work, multiphase flow in its several forms, particle-laden streams, and the pressure parts that contain all of it. Process work is where the multiphase catalogue earns its keep — four distinct formulations, chosen by what the flow actually is.
Questions this answers
- Is this vessel actually mixing, or is there a dead zone?
- How long does material spend in this piece of equipment?
- What does the gas fraction do through this column or line?
- Where do particles deposit, and where do they erode?
- Does this pressure part hold, and what does temperature do to it?
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
twoLiquidMixingFoamreactingFoamsimpleFoammultiphaseEulerFoamdriftFluxFoamcompressibleInterFoamDPMFoamsprayFoam
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 reaction kinetics beyond what the combustion case types carry — this is not a chemistry package.
- No population balance, so droplet and bubble size distributions are not tracked.
- Code-compliance checks against a pressure-vessel standard are not performed. The stress field is computed; the code case is not.
Naming a sector here says the physics suits the work. It is not a claim that anyone in it is a customer.