FloWorks good or bad for CFD
FloWorks good or bad for CFD
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I recently got a FloWorks demo and quote. We are considering adding it to our software suite to aid in our up front engineering for cooling electronic cases. Any input good or bad from folks that are using the software would be appreciated. A few other comments, I'm not an analylist but the go to Mechanical guy at my company. I have alot of past experience doing in depth FEA on various structures as well as modal analysis and random vibration. Since I'm new to CFD I'm plannng on taking a training class first thing assuming we buy it. Will be running the software on an Alienware laptop:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
2 Gig RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400
about 80 gig free space
Thanks for the help.
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
2 Gig RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400
about 80 gig free space
Thanks for the help.






RE: FloWorks good or bad for CFD
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RE: FloWorks good or bad for CFD
if you plan to do flow-thermal analyses inside a closed box, then FloWorks is perfectly able to do this and I think it really worths the money. I wouldn't say it's the best choice possible, but competitors are, as far as I know, more expensive.
Regards
RE: FloWorks good or bad for CFD
RE: FloWorks good or bad for CFD
RE: FloWorks good or bad for CFD
RE: FloWorks good or bad for CFD
I also am using Floworks for electronics packaging.
No I do not have a recommendation. I just think that you should not buy it just because it is packaged with SolidWorks. You will get what you pay for.
Some example of issues:
1) any component that requires conduction require interference (major CAD manipulation).
2) saving the results using the pulldown menu corrupts your results.
3) you have to assume adiabatics walls for internal flow
RE: FloWorks good or bad for CFD
for thermal flow analyses: Icepak (a "cousin" of Fluent). But I really don't know if it's integrated with CAD.
There is surely another CFD integrated with SolidWorks, which outperforms FloWorks at least 5 to 1, but it is also much more expensive; right now I can't remember its name, but if you go to SolidWorks' site there is a page where all the partners are listed: you may want to look for "Gold Partners" because only for them SW certifies that they 100% follow SW standards for API, support, etc...
Regards