Simple commercial CFD-code for ventilation?
 

I am looking for a simple CFD-code for ventilation assignments, but my only experience is Star-CD, which I think is not necessary for these simple assignments. I have heard a little about Fluent and CFX, which both are in the same class as Star-CD.

-Does anyone out there have good experience within this area, who can suggest a good com. code?

Thank you for taking your time for this mail!

Best regards Maria Gaardsted

Re: Simple commercial CFD-code for ventilation?
 

please take a look at the Airpak web site

http://www.airpak.fluent.com

for information about our software that is focused on ventilation applications.

Re: Simple commercial CFD-code for ventilation?
 

hi dear Maria, I am a student of civil - hydraulic eng and searching for such article as you. I am also searching for some good pdf files helping me on "numerical simulation of water stress on an obstacle in the water flow ". If you found or have some please help me , thanks for your help. I am going to use the fluent software for my thesis. if you want tell me your adress and make me known.

Re: Simple commercial CFD-code for ventilation?
 

I know at least three commercials codes which can handle HVAC simulation in a simpler way than a general purpose code :

airpack from fluent Flovent from flomerics floworks from Nika

It suggest you to contact your local resseler of this codes in order to have a demo. It's the better way to make up your own idea

Best regards

alain

Re: Simple commercial CFD-code for ventilation?
 

Maria,

I'm using CFX. On the following link you will find illustrations and papers related to HVAC with CFX:

http://www.software.aeat.com/cfx/ind...vac/index.html

Re: Simple commercial CFD-code for ventilation?
 

To save me adding vendors names to this list you could try looking at a cfd-online archive.

Under 'this years archive' you will see a thread for 'cfd for hvac'. A direct link to this archive is shown below -

http://www.cfd-online.com/Forum/main_archive.cgi?

The thread started 29th Aug.

Hope this helps.

Re: Simple commercial CFD-code for ventilation?
 

Hello Maria,

Computational Dynamics ltd. which is developer of STAR-CD also sells another CFD code 'STAR-LT'. This main features are geometry modeling capabilites based on 3D solid modeler and automatic mesh generation. This is cheaper than STAR-CD since it has no capabilies of high level phisical model ( combustion, two phase flow etc.), however the solver has same reliability because it is same as STAR-CD. I believe that it is suitable for your application.

Please see http://www.cd.co.uk/products/star-lt.htm Since the contents are old, please download the brochure from there.

Best regards,