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Old   December 9, 2013, 05:24
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Hi,

Why is Fluent especially good for external flow compared with CFX?
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Hi Anna,
where did you read this?
I never used cfx, but I read that they are very similar, I know there are some differences in turbulence models, but in fluent they can be replicated by udfs.

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Hi Anna,
where did you read this?
I never used cfx, but I read that they are very similar, I know there are some differences in turbulence models, but in fluent they can be replicated by udfs.

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The Fluent support tells that. It was also mentioned here

http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/blo...machinery.html
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I dont Know exactly but i far i think we have a option of far filed in fluent which is better for compressible flows and the same option farfield we dont get in cfx
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