Flow Simulator is a professional integrated thermal-fluid (fluid, heat transfer and combustion) design and analysis software, developed by Altair Engineering. It is mainly used in the design of gas turbine engines, and is widely used in aerospace, power generation, oil and gas power conversion, transportation, additive manufacturing, automobile making, and so on fields.

As an excellent fluid dynamics simulation software, Flow Simulator is able to build models and simulations during fluid analysis, and to simulate a variety of physical phenomena (such as fluid flow and radiative heat transfer) realistically. It provides interdisciplinary modeling and optimization functions in a single platform, and performs mechanical design in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and combustion in a 3D design environment.

Flow Simulator comes with a simple and intuitive UI, as well as rich and practical functional modules; has powerful ability to handle flows in rotating and stationary reference frames and transfer fluids between reference frames; supports discrete loss, elevation elements, fluid source, fuel source and other analysis solutions; provides pre-configured module/component libraries for modeling and simulating various physical phenomena; supports parametric configuration of system models according to fluid configuration, shape, size, and thermal properties; can set up analysis schemes in a grid manner; can use compressible gases and incompressible liquids as working fluids, and allows user to enter custom fluid properties as needed; and more.

// Key Features //

Fully Coupled Flow and Thermal Network Modeling

An extended library of preconfigured elements and components leveraging a large set of publicly available experimental data for pressure drop and heat transfer characteristics is fully coupled to the thermal and heat transfer solver for steady-state and transient analyses.

Intuitive Interface

A modern interface for pre, post, solve, and optimization. The three-dimensional design environment gives users the ability to overlay/integrate the network model with 3D computer-aided design (CAD) while integrating a customer’s IP and element formulations seamlessly.

Control System Module

Proportional integral derivative (PID) controllers, feedforward, and missions can be integrated with flow/heat transfer models to optimize the simulated-machine operation during cycle/mission analysis.

Optimization Module

Monte Carlo, Optimal Latin Hypercube, and N-factorial analyses quickly explore the entire 3D design space. An analytical model can be parametrized based on flow configuration, shape, dimension, and thermal characteristics to achieve an optimal cost-benefit design.

User-defined Elements

Ability to integrate a customer’s own IP and element formulations using UDE creator supported in flexible python scripting as well as with Fortran language. APIs are provided an option to connect Flow Simulator with external software for multidisciplinary analyses.

Turbomachinery, Energy, and Mobility Applications

Flow Simulator can be used to design and optimize turbine engine systems, energy applications such as power plan piping and electrical generator cooling, as well as thermal management for power and HVAC systems in mobility applications.

// Official Demo Video //

// Edition Statement //

AppNee provides the Flow Simulator multilingual full installers and unlocked files for Windows 64-bit only.

// Installation Notes //

for v2022.0.0+:

1. Download and install Flow Simulator
2. Copy the unlocked files to installation folder and overwrite
3. Double click reg key file to import info, or manually create an environment variable as below:
   • ALTAIR_LICENSE_PATH=C:
4. Done

// Download URLs //

Version	Download	Size
v2023.0		487 MB

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