AcuSolve AcuSolve Key Features and Functionalities Conservative Equations in 3D Incompressible & weakly compressible Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations Thermal analysis and conjugate heat transfer Multi-layered thermal shell equations Multi-species transport equations Viscoelastic Material Modeling Radiation Gray body enclosure radiation View-factor computation (in parallel) Solar radiation model Turbulence Models Direct Numerical Simulation(DNS) Large Eddy Simulation Models Constant coefficient Smagorinsky and Dynamic sub-grid scale LES models Hybrid RANS/LES (DES, DDES, IDDES, SST-DES) models Spalart-Allmaras based Detached Eddy Simulation(DES) Spalart-Allmaras based Delayed Eddy Simulation(DDES) Improved Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation(IDDES) SST-DES Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS model) Spalart-Allmaras 1-equation model SST 2-equation model k-omega 2-equation model Moving Mesh Simulation Technology Arbitrary Eulerian Lagrangian (ALE) Technology Flexible mesh movement Free surface simulation Guide surface technology Sliding mesh technology Specified Mesh Motion Non-conformal Mesh Interfaces Powerful User-Defined Function (UDF) Capability Allows definition of material models, source terms, boundary conditions, etc. Client-server interface with external programs Component Technology Fan component Heat exchange component Multiphysics Capabilities Rigid body dynamics coupling Practical Fluid/Structure Interaction (P-FSI) Direct-Coupling Fluid/Structure Interaction (DC-FSI) Computational Aero Acoustics (CAA) Simulations Built-in Ffowcs-Williams-Hawkings acoustic solver Support for 3rd party acoustics solver Unstructured Mesh Support 4-node tetrahedron, 5-node pyramid, 6-node wedge, 8-node brick, and 10-node tetrahedron elements Highly Effective Solver Technology Novel and highly efficient iterative solver for fully coupled pressure/velocity equation systems Fully coupled temperature/flow iterative equation solver Fully parallel on shared and distributed memory machines, transparent to the user Particle Tracer Fast and accurate parallelized particle tracer Laminar and turbulent diffusion Bi-directionally coupled Supported Platforms Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) Windows HPC Server 2008 Linux (x86-64, NVIDIA Tesla GPGPUs as co-processors)