Ansys FreeFlow™ software is a engineering simulation software equipped with Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, offering a poewerful tool for simulating fluid dynamics.
The SPH method is a mesh-free, Langragian approach that represents fluids as a collection of elements, enabling the accurate modeling of free surfaces flows, and deformable materials allowing the users to solve practical problems quickly in several engineering applications.
KEY FEATURES:
Accurate Fluid Dynamics: Simulate incompressible fluid flows.
Solid-Fluid Interaction: Model the interaction between fluids and structures.
No free surface modeling required.
Clear, easy and practical interface.
Single-phase SPH Solvers
Surface Tension Modeling
Thermal Solver
2-way Coupling with Ansys Motion
Solver SDK and PrePost Scripting
Ansys FreeFlow was developed based on the SPH method applied to Ansys Rocky software therefore both software have a strong relation, with the main distinction being that FreeFlow does not have the Discrete Element Method (DEM) suitable for particle dynamics simulation, but it is a fluids only CFD tool.
FreeFlow was designed to provide engineers with tools they need to tackle complex fluid-structure interactions, offering a detailed and realistic representation of physical process that are challenging to simulate with other methods that depend on mesh creation for domains discretization.
To learn more about SPH, refer to the following resources:
FreeFlow What's New
Each new release of FreeFlow includes a list of what features and functionalities have changed since the last released version. This list is displayed automatically whenever you choose to upgrade your version. Or, to review the list at any other time, from the Help menu, click Release Notes.
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