FLOWSCIENCE FLOW-3D V9.3.2 - MAGNiTUDE

FLOW-3D is a powerful and highly-accurate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that gives engineers valuable insight into many physical flow processes. With special capabilities for accurately predicting free-surface flows, FLOW-3D is the ideal CFD software to use in your design phase as well as in improving production processes.
FLOW-3D is an all-inclusive package. No special additional modules for meshing or post-processing are needed. An integrated graphical user interface ties everything together, from problem setup to post-processing. For a description of key features in our latest FLOW-3D release, Version 9.4, go to the What's New in 9.4 section.

FLOW-3D Features:

Meshing & Geometry:
* Structured finite difference grid
* Multi-Block Gridding with embedded or linked blocks
* Fractional areas/volumes (FAVOR™) for efficient and accurate geometry definition
* Free gridding
* Solids Modeler
* Import most CAD files

Flow Type Options:
* Internal, external and free-surface flows
* Three, two or one dimensional problems
* Transient flows
* Cartesian or cylindrical coordinates
* Inviscid, viscous laminar and turbulent flows
* Multiple scalar species
* Non-inertial reference frames
* Two-phase flows
* Heat transfer with phase change
* Saturated and unsaturated porous media

Flow Definition Options:
* General initial conditions
* Boundary conditions
o Symmetry
o Rigid walls
o Continuative
o Periodic
o Specified pressure
o Specified velocit
o Outflow
o Grid overlay
o Hydrostatic
o Restart previous simulation
o Continuation of a simulation
o Overlay data from a previous simulation
o Add, delete or change model parameters

Numerical Modeling Options:
* Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method for fluid interfaces–TruVOF
* Fractional areas/volumes (FAVOR™) for efficient geometry definition
* First, second or third order advection
* Sharp fluid interface tracking
* Implicit or explicit modeling options
* Point, line relaxation and GMRES pressure solvers
* User-defined variables, subroutines and output
* Utilities for runtime interaction during execution

Fluid Modeling Options:
* One incompressible fluid – confined or with free surfaces
* Two incompressible fluids – miscible or with sharp interfaces
* Compressible fluid – subsonic, transonic, supersonic
* Stratified fluid
* Acoustic phenomena
* Mass particles with variable density or diameter

Thermal Modeling Options:
* Temperature-dependent material properties
* Natural convection
* Forced convection
* Fluid and solid conduction
* Fluid-solid heat transfer
o Conduction
o Specified heat flux
o Specified temperature
* Heat transfer to voids from fluid/obstacles
* Distributed energy sources/sinks in fluids or solids
* Radiation by emissivity
* Viscous heating

Physical Modeling Options:
* Multi-species scour deposition & bedload transport
* Temperature-dependent material properties
* Cavitation
* Phase change (liquid-vapor, liquid-solid & liquid-gas)
* Surface tension
* Thermocapillary effects
* Wall adhesion
* Wall roughness
* Vapor & gas bubbles
* Solidification & melting (heat-of-transformation table)
* Mass/momentum/energy sources
* Distributed mass/energy sources
* Shear, density and temperature-dependent viscosity
* Thixotropic viscosity
* Elastic stress
* Electric field
* Dielectric phenomena
* Electro-osmosis
* Electrostatic particles
* Electro-mechanical effects
* Joule heating
* Air entrainment
* Molecular and turbulent diffusion

Special Physical Models:
* Tethered moving objects (springs & ropes)
* General moving objects with 6 degrees of freedom–user specified motion or fully-coupled with rigid body motion
* Rotating/spinning obstacles
* Porous baffles & obstacles with linear and quadratic flow losses
* Collision model

Metal Casting Models:
* Core gas generation
* Solidification shrinkage with interdendritic feeding
* Temperature-dependent material properties
* Solidification/melting (heat-of-transformation table)
* Binary segregation during solidification
* Solid-fraction dependent latent heat release
* Thermal die cycling
* Defect tracking
* Cavitation potential model
* Lost-Foam casting model
* Semi-solid material models
* Moisture in sand molds
* Shot sleeves
* Back pressure and vents
* Sand core blowing

Turbulence Models:
* Prandtl mixing length
* One-equation transport
* Two-equation k-ε transport
* RNG (renormalized group theory)
* Large eddy simulation

Porous Media Models:
* Variable porosity
* Directional porosity
* General flow losses (linear and quadratic)
* Capillary pressure
* Unsaturated flow
* Heat transfer in porous media

Two-phase and Two-component Models:
* Liquid/liquid and gas/liquid interfaces
* Two-fluid mixtures
* One compressible fluid with a dispersed incompressible component
* Two-component drift-flux
* Phase transformations for gas-liquid and liquid-solid
* Adiabatic bubbles
* Bubbles with phase change
* Continuum fluid with discrete particles
* Scalar transport

Discrete Particle Models:
* Massless marker particles
* Mass particles of variable size/mass
* Linear and quadratic fluid-dynamic drag
* Monte-Carlo diffusion
* Particle-Fluid momentum coupling
* Coefficient of restitution or sticky particles
* Point or volumetric particle sources
* Charged particles
* Probe particles

Shallow Flow Models:
* Shallow-water model
* General topography
* Wetting and drying
* Wind shear
* Ground roughness effects

Chemistry Models:
* Stiff equation solver for chemical rate equations
* Stationary or advected species

Automatic Features:
* Automatic termination based on user-defined criteria
* Mesh and initial condition generators
* Time-step control for accuracy and stability
* Automatic limited compressibility
* Convergence and relaxation levels determined by FLOW-3D
* Mentor help to optimize efficiency

Options for Coupling with Other Programs:
* Geometry input from Stereolithography (STL) files–binary or ASCII
* Geometry input from ANSYS or I’DEAS tetrahedral data
* Geometry input from ANSYS or I’DEAS tetrahedral data
* Direct interfaces with Tecplot®, EnSight®, and FieldView® data
* Output for PLOT3D-compatible visualization programs
* Neutral file output
* Extensive customization tools
* Topgraphic data

Data Processing Options:
* Automatic or custom graph requests
* Interactive OpenGL-based graphics
* Color or B/W vector, contour, 3D surface and particle plots
* Moving history and probe data
* Force and momentum computations
* Animation generation
* PostScript, JPEG and Bitmap output
* Streamlines
* STL geometry viewer

Multi-Processor Computing:
* Shared memory computers
* Distributed memory clusters

INSTALLATION:
1. Unpack@Install
2. Read .nfo from /MAGNITUDE dir
3. Enjoy!

Homepage: http://www.flow3d.com/flow3d/flow3d_over.html