Industrial Support:• Automotive

• Exterior Aerodynamics

• Wind Tunnel Calibration

• HVAC & Cabin Climate Control

• Underhood Thermal Management

• Engine Cooling

• Building HVAC & Ventilation• Chemical

• Mixing Tanks

• Oil/Water Separators

• Industrial Cooling• Electronics

• Generators

• Sprinklers• Sub-sonic Aerospace

Applications• Turbomachinery and Pumps• Water Run Off & Flooding• Wind Turbines

Key Features:• Extensive CAD pre-processing

• Wrapping to support cleanup of CAD

• Steady/Transient Simulations including LES, DES

• CHT, Natural convection

• VoF, Eulerian

• Dynamic/Rotating mesh

• Heat Exchanger, Heat Source/Sink

• MRF, Porous Media

• In-built post-processor

• Automation using Python Scripts

• Remote Computing

Visual-CFD An Intelligent and Advanced User Interface for OpenFOAM®

Visual-CFD is an advanced user interface for OpenFOAM® and is part of ESI’s multi-domain simulation platform, Visual-Environment. This is an intelligent workflow process manager, which consists of simulation “Best Practices” after years of industry experience. All steps involved in a CFD process can be managed using one single application, which is integrated with a number of engineering tools. Currently, Visual-CFD supports various OpenFOAM® solvers for incompressible, compressible, steady, transient, thermal and multiphase simulations.

Multi-Domain/Region Meshing and Heat Exchanger ModelingVisual-CFD is capable of handling complex under hood thermal simulations that require multi-region mesh and heat exchanger modeling with coolant side circuit. Heat transfer modeling including CHT is possible (except radiation) which enables thermal simulations. Even though models like underhood are complex in terms of number of parts or physics, Visual-CFD handles them with quite ease.

Visual-CFD Environment Applications of Visual-CFD

Underhood Thermal Simulation with Visual-CFD

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OpenFOAM Version Support:OpenFOAM 2.4.0, 3.0.0, 3.0.1OpenFOAM 3.0+

Platform Support:Windows (7, 8, 8.1, 10)Linux (RHEL, SuSE*, Fedora*, Ubuntu*)* With some constraints

Supported OpenFOAM Solvers:simpleFoampimpleFoamrhoSimpleFoamrhoPimpleFoambuoyantSimpleFoambuoyantPimpleFoambuoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoambuoyantBoussinesqPimpleFoaminterFoaminterDyMFoampimpleDyMFoamrhoPimpleDyMFoammultiPhaseEulerFoamchtMultiRegionSimpleFoamchtMultiRegionFoam

Key Benefits• Imports most common CAD formats (e.g. CATIA, SolidWorks, UG,

IGES, STEP) as well as STL, OBJ and Nastran• Fast and efficient handling of snappyHexMesh to generate complex

meshes, including multi-domain/region meshing• Interactive mesh diagnostics at the highest professional level• Automatic selection of Simulation Control Parameters based on

quality of mesh and modeling physics• Access to wide range of monitoring and post-processing tools• Macro recording, based on Python scripting and personalized

templates, allowing reuse and customization for future use• Simulation best practices for industrial applications to help Engineers

make better decisions• Outstanding usability for every level of engineer to setup CFD

simulations• Highly effective yet simple and easy-to-use tool• Extensive CAD Cleanup capability including state-of-the art wrapping

technology• Easy mesh import from most popular commercial CFD tools

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Mesh quality based intelligent Discretization Schemes

Automatic Switching to Higher Order Schemes

Visual-CFD provides intelligent processes along with customization possibilities