CRADLE CFD - scFLOW Introductory Seminar One Flow around a Glider

Version 2024.1

•        scFLOW is a general purpose CFD software with outstanding ease-of-use and computational speed. It contains feature-rich capabilities that are strongly suited to flow and thermal analysis, moving objects analysis, and multiphase applications. It includes advanced functions that are specifically targeted towards different engineering fields such as the automotive, aerospace, and machinery industries.

•        This class is an introduction to the basics of scFLOW. It covers all the main workflow steps involved in performing a CFD analysis using scFLOW.

Objectives:
•        Understand the workflow of setting up a simulation within scFLOW
•        Learn about importing a CAD geometry and creating the Domain for flow simulation
•        Understand the Build Analysis Model step and the Part Tree hierarchy
•        Learn why it's important to register Surface regions
•        Understand the Analysis Conditions wizard and some of its commonly used options
•        Create relevant boundary conditions and specify outputs for the simulation results
•        Understand the octree and the meshing parameters
•        Execute the simulation and learn how to interpret the curves displayed in the solver
•        Learn about the post-processor's basic usage and organization
•        Create post-processing objects to visualize the solution

Pre-requisites:

None

Topics:

•        Importing a CAD geometry
•        Fluid domain creation
•        Part tree hierarchy
•        Building the analysis model
•        Surface regions registration
•        Defining the analysis conditions
•        Defining the boundary conditions
•        Specifying the results to be output
•        Understanding the meshing process
•        Generating the mesh
•        Solving the analysis
•        Post-processing the results