CFX
| Developer(s) | ANSYS Inc. |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 14.0 |
| Operating system | Unix, Microsoft Windows, Linux |
| Type | Computational fluid dynamics software |
| License | Commercial software |
| Website | [1] |
ANSYS CFX is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program, used to simulate fluid flow in a variety of applications. The ANSYS CFX product allows engineers to test systems in a virtual environment. The scalable program has been applied to the simulation of water flowing past ship hulls, gas turbine engines (including the compressors, combustion chamber, turbines and afterburners), aircraft aerodynamics, pumps, fans, HVAC systems, mixing vessels, hydrocyclones, vacuum cleaners, and more.
History
ANSYS CFX software has its roots in the programs CFX-TASCflow and CFX-4. CFX-4 was formerly Flow3D in the United Kingdom and originally developed in-house for use by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), and TASCflow which was developed by Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC), of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
FLOW3D was commercialized by UKAEA in the late 1980s and early 1990s, based on other in-house codes. It was renamed as CFX-4 in the mid 1990s, since the name Flow-3D was already used in North America. The original product offering was based on a multi-block structured hexahedral code based on a co-located segregated implementation of the SIMPLE solution method. CFX-4 was very strong in the chemical process industry and included some of the industry's most advanced multiphase and chemistry models.
TASCflow was a structured multi-block hexahedral grid code, with a co-located primitive variable formulation that utilized a control volume based finite element discretization scheme to create a linearized system of equations that was solved using a unique, highly effective proprietary coupled-multigrid solver. The Waterloo office has maintained strong ties with the University of Waterloo and its initial, highly academic, focus led to the development of advanced discretization methods and solution algorithms. CFX-TASCflow was primarily used for turbo-machinery applications, with modeling strengths in combustion and turbulence where the coupled solver delivered simultaneous solution of hydrodynamic flow variables (velocity and pressure).
See also
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Finite element analysis
- Computer simulation
- Computer-aided design
- Computer-aided engineering
Related Software
- ANSYS Fluent (proprietary software)
- Star-CCM+
- Code Saturne (GPL)
- OpenFOAM (GPL)
External links
- CFX product page
- SVS FEM s.r.o (Czech Republic, Brno)
- CFD.HU Ltd. (Hungary, Budapest)it:CFX
