Test your product while you design it. The easy-to-use 3D virtual simulation capabilities are fully embedded in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, eliminating tedious, time-consuming tasks.
Compare SOLIDWORKS FloXpress with SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, as well as the two additional add-on modules available only for Flow Simulation: the HVAC module and the Electronic Cooling module.
Test your product while you design it. The easy-to-use 3D virtual simulation capabilities are fully embedded in SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, eliminating tedious, time-consuming tasks.
Optimize your design/simulation process as any design change is automatically updated in SOLIDWORKS Simulation.
Manage multiple “what-if?” design ideas in the same file, analyze each design separately and then easily compare results.
Simulate 3D liquid and gas flow in parts and assemblies under real-world conditions.
Simulate in a 2D plane to reduce run time without effecting accuracy.
Include specific solid, fluid and fan behaviors with a customizable engineering database.
Calculate the impact of fluid flow through your product.
Calculate the impact of fluid flow around your product.
Simulate heat transfer within fluids and between fluids and solids as well as within the fluid and between walls and the fluid (convection).
Calculate temperature change in a product’s solid geometry and analyze thermal contact resistance. Conjugate convection, conduction and radiation heat transfer.
Include fluid buoyancy important for natural convection, free surface and mixing problems.
Simulate fluid flow in environments with more than one inlet and outlet.
Simulate moving/rotating surfaces or parts to calculate the effect of rotating/moving devices.
Calculate both ideal and real flows for subsonic, transonic and supersonic conditions.
Determine the flow behavior of incompressible or compressible liquids. For water flows, the location of cavitation can also be determined.
Determine the flow behavior of non-newtonian liquids, such as oil, blood, sauce, etc.
Perform flow of any pair of fluids belonging to gases, liquids or non-Newtonian liquids.
Analyze flows that include steam water vapor condensation and calculate relative humidity.
Calculate motions of the specified particles (Particle Studies) or flows of the specified extraneous fluids (Tracer Study) in the fluid flow, which does not affect this fluid flow.
Treat some model components as porous media with the fluid flow through them, or simulate them as fluid cavities with a distributed resistance to fluid flow.
Investigate your design performance and isolate critical areas by viewing iso-surfaces, surface and section result plots.
Display parameter values at specified points, or calculated over the specified surface or volume.
Visualize the stress and displacement of your assembly with customizable 3D plots. Animate the response of your assembly under loads to visualize deformations, vibration modes, contact behavior, optimization alternatives and flow trajectories.
Create and publish customized reports to provide technical and business insights for product development decisions.
Communicate your flow simulation results and collaborate easily with non-SOLIDWORKS users via eDrawings, a shareable 3D file format.
Predict the degree of thermal comfort of people exposed to thermal environments (PMV, PPD, etc.)
Estimate the air quality of a simulated environment (LAQI).
Consider radiation spectrum in heat transfer simulation as well as absorption of radiation in solid bodies.
HVAC applications of Tracer Studies vary widely. Examples include study of the flow of a certain admixture (Tracer) in an existing carrier fluid or measuring effectiveness of a ventilation system in removing contaminated air (CRE).
Test specific models for electronic cooling (heat pipes, two-resistor components, electrical contact resistance, printed circuit boards (PCB), etc.
Consider electrical joule heat release in heat transfer simulations.
Additional fans from different fan manufacturers.
Additional large database of specific building materials.
Additional libraries for electronic cooling including thermoelectric coolers, two-resistor components, printed circuit boards and interface materials.
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