FLOW-3D v10.1 Features List v10.1 features are listed in red Meshing & Geometry Structured finite difference/control volume meshes Finite element meshes for structural analysis Multi-Block gridding with nested & linked blocks Fractional areas/volumes (FAVOR™) for efficient & accurate geometry definition Unstructured Memory Allocation (UMA) Basic Solids Modeler Import CAD data Grid & geometry independence Cartesian or cylindrical coordinates Flow Type Options Internal, external & free-surface flows Hybrid shallow water/3D flow model 3D, 2D & 1D problems Transient flows Inviscid, viscous laminar & turbulent flows Non-inertial reference frames Multiple scalar species Two-phase flows Heat transfer with phase change Saturated & unsaturated porous media Flow Definition Options General initial and boundary conditions Symmetry Rigid and flexible walls Continuative Periodic Specified pressure Specified velocity Outflow Grid overlay Hydrostatic pressure Volume flow rate Non-linear periodic and solitary surface waves Restart from previous simulation Continuation of a simulation Overlay boundary conditions Change mesh Change model parameters Thermal Modeling Options Natural convection Forced convection Conduction in fluid & solid Fluid-solid heat transfer Conduction Specified heat flux Specified solid temperature Distributed energy sources/sinks in fluids and solids Radiation Viscous heating Thermal stress evolution Orthographic thermal conductivity Thermally-induced stresses Numerical Modeling Options TruVOF Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method for fluid interfaces First and second order advection Sharp and diffuse interface tracking Implicit & explicit numerical methods GMRES, point and line relaxation pressure solvers User-defined variables, subroutines & 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 Shallow Flow Models Shallow water model General topography Wetting & drying Wind shear Ground roughness effects Laminar & turbulent flow Physical Modeling Options Fluid structure interaction Thermal stress evolution Plastic deformation of solids Granular flow Moisture drying Solid solute dissolution Sediment scour deposition & bedload transport Cavitation Phase change (liquid-vapor, liquid-solid) Surface tension Thermocapillary effects Wall adhesion Wall roughness Vapor & gas bubbles Solidification & melting Mass/momentum/energy sources Shear, density & temperature-dependent viscosity Thixotropic viscosity Visco-elastic-plastic fluids Elastic membranes & walls Evaporation residue Electric field Dielectric phenomena Electro-osmosis Electrostatic particles Electro-mechanical effects Joule heating Air entrainment Molecular & turbulent diffusion Temperature-dependent material properties Spray cooling Advanced Physical Models General Moving Object model with 6 DOF–prescribed and fully-coupled motion Rotating/spinning objects Collision model Tethered moving objects (springs & ropes) Flexing membranes and walls Porosity Finite element based elastic-plastic deformation Finte element based thermal stress evolution due to thermal changes in a solidifying fluid Chemistry Models Stiff equation solver for chemical rate equations Stationary or advected species Metal Casting Models Thermal stress & deformations Iron solidification Sand core blowing Sand core drying Permeable molds Solidification & melting Solidification shrinkage with interdendritic feeding Micro & macro porosity Binary alloy segregation Thermal die cycling Surface oxide defects Cavitation potential Lost-foam casting Semi-solid material Core gas generation Back pressure & vents Shot sleeves Air entrainment Temperature-dependent material properties Cooling channel definitions Porous Media Models Saturated and unsaturated flow Variable porosity Directional porosity General flow losses (linear & quadratic) Capillary pressure Heat transfer in porous media Van Genunchten model for unsaturated flow Discrete Particle Models Massless marker particles Mass particles of variable size/mass Linear & 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