Need help reducing simulation time

[kymaks]

I am modeling air flow from the atmosphere and from jet exhaust over a plate on the side of an airplane. Solidworks Flow Simulation works fine for air but when I check the "heat conduction in solids" option under General Settings the simulation time shoots up to a ridiculous amount of time. Can someone help me troubleshoot this?

The overall goal here is to obtain a heat flux map over the surface of the Panel part.

The model I uploaded was created with Solidworks 2010.

 

[kellnerp]

I setup such a machine for myself, but with an AMD processor. My philosopy was to buy the fastest AMD hexacore (more bang for buck but not absolute fastest. I reused an old computer case and just bought a motherboard, memory, CPU, cooler and an SSD drive. I had to get a PCIXpress video card and reused a Raptor drive. This happened for around $1000 and in your case would give a 3 times increase in speed. Phenom cores are slower than i7, but there are more of them. You would have to move your SW license back and forth from your laptop to make this work.

So to summarize:

Reduce computational domain
Coarsen mesh/grid in areas that don't need refinement
Use internal flow

and

potentially upgrade hardware.

About beat this to death.

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[kymaks]

"Reduce computational domain
Coarsen mesh/grid in areas that don't need refinement
Use internal flow"

Done.

"potentially upgrade hardware."

Sadly I'm too poor for that at the moment. Thanks for all the help!