Single Issue Tools - Complex - PHOENICS

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Summary

PHOENICS is a Computational Fluid Dynamics program that runs on PC's, workstations, supercomputers and parallel processors. The system is able to solve steady-state or transient problems involving laminar, turbulent and chemically reactive flows. PHOENICS is supplied with a wide range of models for heat transfer, turbulence, physical properties, combustion and reaction kinetics. Application specific versions are available.

PHOENICS can be used for a wide variety of fluid flow simulations, including:

• flows of gases or liquids;
• multi-phase flows;
• particle tracking;
• non-Newtonian flows;
• combusting or reacting flows.

Complex geometries can be established using either menu-driven or visual reality interfaces. Interfaces exist to ALGOR, PATRAN, IDEAS, IGES and other CAD and graphical display tools. Users may incorporate their own calculations into a model.

The simulation results can be viewed using the in-built visualisation capabilty, which produces colour 3D plots for any chosen variable. Contours, vectors, streamlines and iso-surfaces can all be plotted. Interfaces are also available to a range of third-party post processors such as AVS and TecPlot.