Creo Flow Analysis
A complete computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution for product designers and analysts.
What is Creo Flow Analysis (CFA)?
Creo Flow Analysis (CFA) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool designed to simulate fluid flow easily. It predicts system or product performance involving internal or external fluid flow and heat transfer. Integrated with Creo, CFA enhances product analysis and supports design validation and optimization without requiring extensive CFD experience. Users benefit from features like automated meshing, CAD-CFD associativity, and handling complex geometries. With CFA, engineers can perform parametric simulations, study performance in detail, and modify designs efficiently, reducing the need for costly hardware testing and improving overall design quality and speed.
Features found in the three tiers of Creo Flow Analysis
Creo Flow Analysis Basic
Creo Flow Analysis Basic provides a comprehensive set of features to enhance your fluid dynamics simulations. With the ability to calculate both internal and external flows, you can accurately predict performance in a variety of scenarios. The tool allows you to animate flow results in real time, giving you immediate visual feedback on how your design performs. Parallel processing simulation ensures faster analysis by leveraging multiple cores, reducing computation time. Additionally, Creo Flow Analysis Basic supports the simulation of fluid flow, heat transfer, and turbulence, enabling you to capture the complexities of real-world fluid dynamics in your design process.
Creo Flow Analysis Advanced
Creo Flow Analysis Advanced includes all the features of the Basic version, such as calculating internal and external flows, real-time flow animation, parallel processing, and handling fluid flow, heat transfer, and turbulence. Additionally, it offers advanced capabilities like simulating individual particles, radiation heat transfer, species mixing, and moving/sliding meshing. These features provide a detailed and dynamic understanding of your design's performance in complex conditions.
Creo Flow Analysis Premium
Creo Flow Analysis Premium builds on the Basic version, adding advanced features for enhanced simulations. It includes particle simulation, radiation heat transfer, and species mixing of liquids with similar densities. Additionally, the Premium version supports moving/sliding meshing to simulate individual component movement within a flow analysis, providing a detailed and dynamic evaluation of complex fluid dynamics.
Who should use Creo Flow Analysis and why
Creo Flow Analysis (CFA) is designed for engineers, product designers, and simulation specialists who need to optimize designs involving fluid dynamics. It’s valuable for those working with systems or products that require internal or external fluid flow, heat transfer, and turbulence analysis. CFA enables detailed simulations and real-time result visualization, helping users make informed design decisions and refine performance. Its advanced features, like automated meshing and particle simulation, offer high accuracy and efficiency. Integrated seamlessly with Creo, CFA enhances workflow and reduces the need for physical testing, accelerating the design process, and improving overall product quality.