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3D CFD Analysis for Product

Designers

Better products, faster than ever

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Continuous Business Pressures

How Virtual simulation with CFD helps facing them?

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation overview

3D CFD Analysis for Product Designers

Agenda

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Continuous Business pressures

Deliver new, high-quality innovative products faster, and at

competitive costs

Top strategy for manufacturers : improve business execution *

Time to Market

Cost

Reduce mistakes

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Continuous Business pressures

Innovation

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Challenges*

Continuous Business pressures

Increased Product complexity

• Miniaturization in Electronics

• Complex shape

• Energy efficiency

• Security

Product Performance impacted by multiple forces

• Coupled with increased complexity

• Experience not enough

Undetected mistakes

• Major sources of cost and time consumed

Source * : Aberdeen group, ‘Optimizing product Development time by using CFD

as a design tool, November 2011’

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Understanding of Product Behavior

Continuous Business pressures

Source * : Aberdeen group, ‘Optimizing product

Development time by using CFD as a design tool,

November 2011’

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The tool to understand Product Behavior

Simulation

Shorten product development process

Answer Market requests

Improve Performance & Quality

Boost innovation

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Ability to increase competitiveness by detecting design mistakes early in

new product development.

Ability to provide insights to better designs and processes.

Product development needs better insight into product behavior to

address time, quality and cost pressures

Enabling product development team to make better design decisions has

a direct impact on the success of the overall company

The tool to understand Product Behavior

Simulation

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Product Engineers

What-if design scenarios

Investigate technical solutions

Reach the market place

Meets customer requirement

Meets company strategy of quality & performance

Answers costs pressure

The tool to understand Product Behavior

Simulation

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Business Impacts

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Source * : Aberdeen group, ‘Optimizing product

Development time by using CFD as a design tool,

November 2011’

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General purpose fluid flow and heat transfer simulation tool integrated with SOLIDWORKS

3D CAD

Simulate performance of products using CFD (computational Fluid Dynamics) as a

Design Tool

Water flow inside a valve

Air flow inside and outside electronic components

Aerodynamic simulation

Concurrent engineering

SOLIDWORKS embedded

Ease of Use

Driven by Engineering goals

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

Internal and External flowsNewtonian and Non Newtonian

Liquids

Heat transfer simulation Liquids OR GasesExport results to SOLIDWORKS

Simulation

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Solving Engineering challenges

Pressure Drop

• Inspect and optimize pressure distribution

Flow Fields

• Examine complex flow through your components, over your components

Heat Transfer

• Reduce the risk of overheating phenomena

Force Prediction

• Inspect related forces on immersed or surrounding components

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All Product Engineers

Powerful design decision making tool ensuring product

performance

Benefits of concurrent engineering: Quality, Cost and Time

savings.

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation for Product Engineers

Summary

Find out more at: http://www.solidworks.com/sw/products/simulation/flow-simulation.htm

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