Modern CAE tools makes possible to simulate in a virtual environment complex phenomena like heat transfer processes in a very short time.
Any cooling system or heat exchanger can be reproduced under several different working conditions, and tuning parameters (like shapes or timings) can be optimized to reach very high level of efficiency.
XC Engineering propose two different tools that can be used at the design stage: FLOW-3D and IOSO.
FLOW-3D is a fluid-dynamic simulation tool that makes able to reproduce virtually the working condition of any device, even very complex, and have as output the heat transfer performance of temperature field of it. This in a fully 3D turbulent environment.
Users can easily import their geometries, and the mashing phase is greatly reduced trough the use of the FAVORTM algorithm. The FAVOR is an immersive boundary approach, where the mesh is quickly drawn by creating boxes around complex shapes. No need to follow the contour of the solid obstacle, to mesh it.
The approach is through a time-marching technique, that allows high accuracy and computational speed especially when solving transient problems.
Simulation provides in output several quantities of interest:
• pressure and velocity value in every cell location at every time-frame
• heat transfer coefficients
• temperature field in every solid component
• temperature field inside the fluid
• thermal stresses and deformations due to thermal gradients
• particle dynamics
• streamlines seeding
• vorticity and stagnation zones
• local shear stress
Particulary rich is the multi-physics contained in the software, like: deformable components, phase change phenomena, tracking colorant, electrically charged particles, etc.
Nowadays, to get into the market with the highest quality level product as possible, it is often used to perform an optimization study of the own heat exchanger device.
To search for very extremum performance in a very quick way, try the software IOSO Technology (by SigmaTechnology).
IOSO will work in loop with your actual modeling tools, no needs of buying other simulation tools, using a new optimization "push-button" technology, that adopt a Self-Organization Strategy making use of up to 7 different well-known optimization methods (gradients, genetic, neural network, search region,...).
To know more:
IOSO
FLOW-3D
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