{"id":718,"date":"2015-07-04T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T21:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/?page_id=718"},"modified":"2015-07-28T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:34:09","slug":"phoenics-features","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/index.php\/phoenics-features\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOENICS Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-718\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-718-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-718-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-718-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Brochures<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-718-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-cta\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-cta 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reliable, cost-effective, and easy-to-use tool to simulate processes involving fluid flow, heat or mass transfer, chemical reaction and\/or combustion in engineering equipment and the environment. With the longest history of validation and a large user base, it is not surprising that PHOENICS has a proven track record in nearly every branch of science and engineering in which fluid flow plays a key role. Organizations large and small use PHOENICS to improve their competitive edge in the research and development of products and processes involving fluid flow and heat transfer.<code><div id=\"pinks6-link-718\" class=\"sh-link pinks6-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('pinks6', 718, 'Modeling capabilities (+)', 'Modeling capabilities (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"pinks6-toggle-718\">Modeling capabilities (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"pinks6-content-718\" class=\"sh-content pinks6-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/code><\/p>\n<ul class=\"indented\">\n<li>Problem dimensionality: one, two and three dimensions.<\/li>\n<li>Time dependence: steady state and transient processes.<\/li>\n<li>Grid systems: Cartesian, cylindrical-polar and curvilinear co-ordinates; rotating co-ordinate systems; multi-block grids and fine grid embedding.<\/li>\n<li>Compressible\/incompressible flows.<\/li>\n<li>Newtonian\/non-Newtonian flows.<\/li>\n<li>Subsonic, transonic and supersonic flows.<\/li>\n<li>Flow in porous media, with direction-dependent resistances.<\/li>\n<li>Convection, conduction and radiation; conjugate heat transfer, with a library of solid materials and automatic linkage at the solid fluid interface.<\/li>\n<li>A wide range of built-in turbulence models for high and low-Reynolds number flows; LVEL model for turbulence in congested domains and a variety of K-E models, including RNG, two- scale and two-layer models.<\/li>\n<li>Multi-phase flows of three kinds with a variety of built-in interphase-transfer models:\n<ol>\n<li>Inter-penetrating continua, including turbulence and modulation;<\/li>\n<li>Particle tracking, including turbulence dispersion effects;<\/li>\n<li>Free-surface flows.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Finite-volume approach on staggered or collocated grids, with 13 choices of discretization schemes for convection.<\/li>\n<li>Combustion and Nox models, with a range of diffusion and kinetically controlled models including the unique Multi-Fluid Model for turbulent chemical reaction.<\/li>\n<li>Chemical kinetics including multi-component diffusion and variable properties. Built-in interface to the CHEMKIN chemical database.<\/li>\n<li>Advanced radiation models, including surface-surface model with calculated view factors, a six-flux model and composite radiosity model for radiative heat transfer, known as IMMERSOL<\/li>\n<li>Mechanical and thermal stresses in immersed solids can be computed at the same time as the fluid flow and heat transfer.<code><\/div><\/code><code><div id=\"links2-link-718\" class=\"sh-link links2-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('links2', 718, 'Chemical Reactions and Combustion (+)', 'Chemical Reactions and Combustion (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"links2-toggle-718\">Chemical Reactions and Combustion (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"links2-content-718\" class=\"sh-content links2-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><!-- dbs 13,05.11 updates--><\/code>From its beginning in 1981, PHOENICS has been used for simulating processes involving chemical-reaction processes, and especially those involving combustion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It continues to be heavily used for these purposes.<\/p>\n<p>PHOENICS can handle the combustion of gaseous, liquid (e.g. oil-spray) and solid (eg pulverized-coal) fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Chemical reactions are simulated by PHOENICS in several ways, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a>SCRS<\/a>, \"the Simple Chemically Reacting System\" built into user-accessible Fortran coding (which users <b>may<\/b> modify, but <b> need not<\/b> even look at);<\/li>\n<li>ESCRS, \"the Extended Simple Chemically Reacting System\" built into user-accessible Fortran coding;<\/li>\n<li><a>CREK<\/a>, a set of user-callable subroutines which handle the thermodynamics and finite-rate or equilibrium chemical kinetics of complex chemical reactions;<\/li>\n<li><a>CHEMKIN 2<\/a>, the public-domain code to which PHOENICS has an interface,<\/li>\n<li><a>PLANT<\/a>, which enables users to introduce new reaction schemes and material properties by way of formulae introduced into the data-input command file, Q1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_753\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/explo101.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-753\" class=\"size-full wp-image-753\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/explo101.png\" alt=\"Explosion in a baffled enclosure\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/explo101.png 640w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/explo101-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Explosion in a baffled enclosure<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><code><\/div><div id=\"links4-link-718\" class=\"sh-link links4-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('links4', 718, 'Heat Transfer and Radiation (+)', 'Heat Transfer and Radiation (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"links4-toggle-718\">Heat Transfer and Radiation (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"links4-content-718\" class=\"sh-content links4-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Thermal radiation is so important a mode of heat transfer that most codes have some means of simulating it. Only PHOENICS however possesses the economical and realistic IMMERSOL model, which calculates the radiative transfer between arbitrarily-shaped solids immersed in fluids which may or may not themselves emit and absorb radiation.<a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/radiativejo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-513 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/radiativejo.png\" alt=\"Radiative Heat Transfer\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/radiativejo.png 480w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/radiativejo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><code><\/div><div id=\"links0-link-718\" class=\"sh-link links0-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('links0', 718, 'Multiphase flow (+)', 'Multiphase flow (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"links0-toggle-718\">Multiphase flow (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"links0-content-718\" class=\"sh-content links0-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/code> Multi-phase flows are those involving, to name but a few examples:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px;\">\u2022 steam and water in a boiler,<br \/>\u2022 air and sand in a desert storm,<br \/>\u2022 fuel droplets and combustion gases in an engine,<br \/>\u2022 a layer of oil, floating on the surface of a river.<\/p>\n<p>PHOENICS was the first general-purpose computer code to be able to simulate multi-phase flows; and it is still capable of doing so more effectively, and in a greater variety of ways, than most of its competitors.<br \/>Multi-phase-flow phenomena can be simulated by PHOENICS in four distinct ways. These are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">a. as two inter-penetrating continua, each having at every point in the space-time domain under consideration, its own:<br \/>velocity components, temperature, composition, density, viscosity, volume fraction, etc; IPSA (Eulerian-Eulerian method)<br \/>b. as multiple inter-penetrating continua having the same range of properties; (Algebraic Slip Method (Mixture method)<br \/>c. as two non-interpenetrating continua, separated by a free surface; (Scalar Equation Method (VOF TVD type method)<br \/>d. as a particulate phase for which the particle trajectories are computed as they move through a continuous fluid. (Eulerian - Lagrangian type method).<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_512\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/multiphasejo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"size-full wp-image-512\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/multiphasejo.png\" alt=\"Multiphase flows\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/multiphasejo.png 480w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/multiphasejo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Multiphase flows<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><code><\/div><div id=\"links5-link-718\" class=\"sh-link links5-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('links5', 718, 'Simultaneous fluid, heat and solid-stress analysis (+)', 'Simultaneous fluid, heat and solid-stress analysis (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"links5-toggle-718\">Simultaneous fluid, heat and solid-stress analysis (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"links5-content-718\" class=\"sh-content links5-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\">There exist many well-established computer codes for stress-analysis only; and PHOENICS is not proposed as a replacement for them. However, if fluid-flow, solid-stress and thermal interactions are all of significance, PHOENICS is the only computer code which can handle them all simultaneously.<br \/><\/code><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_511\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/stressjo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-511\" class=\"size-full wp-image-511\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/stressjo.png\" alt=\"Fluid structure Interaction\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/stressjo.png 480w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/stressjo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fluid structure Interaction<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><code><\/div><\/code><code><div id=\"links3-link-718\" class=\"sh-link links3-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('links3', 718, 'Turbulence Models (+)', 'Turbulence Models (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"links3-toggle-718\">Turbulence Models (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"links3-content-718\" class=\"sh-content links3-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/code>The available turbulence models, in PHOENICS,\u00a0 are divided into the following groups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LAMINAR - The flow is laminar and there is no turbulence model.<\/li>\n<li><a>CONSTANT-EFFECTIVE<\/a> - The turbulent viscosity is constant. The default setting is 200 times the laminar viscosity.<\/li>\n<li><a>LVEL<\/a> - Generalised length-scale zero-equation model, useful when there are many objects and the grid is coarse.<\/li>\n<li><a>KEMODL<\/a> - Classical two-equation high Reynolds number. k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span> model<\/li>\n<li><a>KOMODL<\/a> - Kolmogorov-Wilcox two- equation k-f model. Useful for transitional flows and flows with adverse pressure gradients.<\/li>\n<li>USER - User-defined model for advanced users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>KE Variants - Several variants of the K-E model usually giving enhanced performance for recirculating flow.\n<ul>\n<li><a>KECHEN<\/a> - Chen-Kim two-equation k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span> model. Gives better prediction of separation and vortexes.<\/li>\n<li><a>KERNG<\/a> - RNG derived two-equation k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span> model. Gives better prediction of separation and vortexes. However, the user is advised that the model results in substantial deterioration in the prediction of plane and round free jets in stagnant surroundings.<\/li>\n<li><a>KEMMK<\/a> - Murakami, Mochida and Kondo k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span> model for flow around bluff bodies as encountered for example in wind-engineering applications.<\/li>\n<li><a>KEKL<\/a> - Kato-Launder k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span> model for flow around bluff bodies as encountered for example in wind-engineering applications.<\/li>\n<li><a>KEMODL-YAP<\/a> - k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span> model with Yap correction for separated flows.<\/li>\n<li><a>TSKEMO<\/a> - Two scale k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span> model for flows in which there is an appreciable time lag between the turbulent production and dissipation processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Low-Re models - Several Low-Reynolds Number variants of the K-E model.\n<ul>\n<li><a>KEMODL-LOWRE<\/a> - Lam-Bremhorst low Reynolds version of k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><a>KEMODL-LOWRE-YAP<\/a> - Lam-Bremhorst low Reynolds k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span> with Yap correction for separated flows.<\/li>\n<li><a>KECHEN-LOWRE<\/a> - Low Reynolds variant of Chen-Kim model.<\/li>\n<li><a>KEMODL-2L<\/a> - Two layer k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span> model, which uses the high-Re k-<span style=\"font-family: Symbol;\">e<\/span> model only away from the wall in the fully-turbulent region, and the near-wall viscosity- affected layer is resolved with a one-equation model involving a length-scale prescription. This saves mesh points and improves convergence rates.<\/li>\n<li><a>KOMODL-LOWRE<\/a> - Low Reynolds Kolmogorov-Wilcox model.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Others- A range of models, from simple one-equation models to Reynolds Stress (REYSTRS), including a Sub-Grid-Scale LES model (SGSMOD).\n<ul>\n<li><a>MIXLEN<\/a> - Prandtl mixing-length model. Simple model for unbounded flows.<\/li>\n<li><a>MIXLEN-RICE<\/a> - Mixing-length model for bubble-column reactors.<\/li>\n<li><a>KLMODL<\/a> - Prandtl energy model. One-equation k-l model for wall-dominated flows.<\/li>\n<li><a>KWMODL<\/a> - Saffman-Spalding two-equation. k-vorticity model<\/li>\n<li><a>REYSTRS<\/a> - Reynolds stress model<\/li>\n<li><a>SGSMOD<\/a> - Smagorinsky sub-grid scale LES model with wall damping<\/li>\n<li><a>SGSMOD_NOWD<\/a> - Smagorinsky sub-grid scale LES model with no wall damping<\/li>\n<li><a>SGSMOD_VDWD<\/a> - with Van Driest wall damping function<\/li>\n<li><a>2FLUID<\/a> - Two-fluid model<\/li>\n<li><a>MFLUID<\/a> - Multi-fluid model<code><\/div><div id=\"links7-link-718\" class=\"sh-link links7-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('links7', 718, 'Input from CAD (+)', 'Input from CAD (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"links7-toggle-718\">Input from CAD (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"links7-content-718\" class=\"sh-content links7-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><!-- dbs 13,05.11 updates-->The Graphical User Interface of PHOENICS facilitates the import of objects from:<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>its own large library<\/li>\n<li>CAD packages<\/li>\n<li>its own solid-modelling package, Shapemaker,<\/li>\n<li>the powerful bundled-with-PHOENICS package.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><code><!-- dbs 13,05.11 updates--><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Once imported, the objects can be moved, stretched, rotated, duplicated, grouped, given, attributes, hidden, deleted, etc. By default, after the objects have been placed in the desired positions, the grid adjusts itself to fit them optimally. Very often, CFD analysis is required for a situation which has been already defined geometrically by way of a Computer-Aided-Drawing (CAD) package.<\/p>\n<p>If the geometry already exists as CAD geometry files, a considerable time saving can be achieved through the use of PHOENICS-VR's ability to import CAD files directly.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAD-packages are frequently used to design engineering equipment. Most have the ability to define their output in a variety of formats. The formats supported directly by VR are:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>*.stl<\/td>\n<td>Stereolithography file. This is available in many popular CAD programs as an export format. ASCII and binary forms are supported.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.3ds<\/td>\n<td>Autodesk 3ds Max (3D Studio)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.wrl<\/td>\n<td>Virtual Reality Modelling Language file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.dw<\/td>\n<td>Files generated by DesignWorkshop from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artifice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artifice<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.ac<\/td>\n<td>Files generated by AC3D from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inivis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Invis<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.iv<\/td>\n<td>Files generated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vsg3d.com\/open-inventor\/sdk\" target=\"_blank\">Open Inventor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.osg<\/td>\n<td>Native OSG (OpenSceneGraph) ascii<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a name=\"table2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many further formats are supported indirectly by translation to .3ds using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simlab-soft.com\/3d-products\/simlab-composer-main.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">SimLab Composer<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simlab-soft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i><b>SimLab<\/b>Soft<\/i><\/a>. This software is shipped with PHOENICS and runs silently whenever required. A licence key can be obtained directly from CHAM. The formats requiring Simlab Composer are:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>*.dxf<\/td>\n<td>AutoCAD Drawing Exchange Format file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.dwg<\/td>\n<td>AutoCAD Drawing Database file(3D)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.dwf<\/td>\n<td>AutoCAD Design Web Format file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.skp<\/td>\n<td>SketchUp file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.3dm<\/td>\n<td>Rhino file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.sldasm, *.sldprt<\/td>\n<td>SolidWorks assembly and parts files<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.asm, *.par, *.psm<\/td>\n<td>SolidEdge assembly and parts files<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.stp<\/td>\n<td>STEP file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.igs, *.iges<\/td>\n<td>IGES (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IGES\" target=\"_blank\">Initial Graphics Exchange Specification<\/a>) file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.iam, *.ipt<\/td>\n<td>Autodesk Inventor assembly and parts files<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.sat<\/td>\n<td>3D ACIS Modeler - Standard ACIS Text file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.obj<\/td>\n<td>Wavefront Technologies geometry definition file (OBJ)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.xaml<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extensible_Application_Markup_Language\" target=\"_blank\"> Extensible Application Markup Language<\/a> XAML file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.3dxml<\/td>\n<td>3DXML - Dassault Systemes 3DVIA file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.u3d<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Universal_3D\" target=\"_blank\">Universal 3D<\/a> file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.dae<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COLLADA\" target=\"_blank\">COLLADA<\/a> Digital Asset Exchange file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>*.fbx<\/td>\n<td>Autodesk FBX Technology file<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>PHOENICS VR converts the CAD file to the PHOENICS-VR geometry format directly (or indirectly via SimLab) using the Datmaker utility. Below is shown an example of residential buildings displayed in the VR-Editor. The CAD file was created by way of the well-known AUTOCAD package. This CAD file in STL format was polished by PHOENICS, and then imported into PHOENICS-VR in a few seconds, rotated, and somewhat re-sized.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_770\" style=\"width: 783px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/buildings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-770\" class=\"size-full wp-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/buildings.jpg\" alt=\"buildings from CAD\" width=\"773\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/buildings.jpg 773w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/buildings-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">buildings from CAD<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><code><\/div><div id=\"links6-link-718\" class=\"sh-link links6-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('links6', 718, 'Moving objects (+)', 'Moving objects (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"links6-toggle-718\">Moving objects (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"links6-content-718\" class=\"sh-content links6-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\">MOFOR is a feature of PHOENICS, which permits the simulation of flows induced by bodies in motion.<\/code>It acts by moving, through the fixed computational grid, such momentum sources as will ensure that the velocities at locations within the body have the values implied by the prescribed motion. There is another important class of phenomena in which fluids are caused to move by motions imparted to the domain itself. A familiar example is the 'sloshing' of a layer of liquid in a tank which is jolted, tilted, or caused to oscillate. Such motions can also be handled by MOFOR.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_516\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moforjo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-516\" class=\"size-full wp-image-516\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moforjo.png\" alt=\"Moving Objects\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moforjo.png 480w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moforjo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moving Objects<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><code><\/div><div id=\"links8-link-718\" class=\"sh-link links8-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('links8', 718, 'PARSOL, Fine Grid embedding (+)', 'PARSOL, Fine Grid embedding (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"links8-toggle-718\">PARSOL, Fine Grid embedding (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"links8-content-718\" class=\"sh-content links8-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/code>PARSOL is the technique in PHOENICS for improving the accuracy of flow simulations for situations in which a fluid\/solid boundary intersects obliquely some of the cells of a cartesian or polar-coordinate grid by:<\/p>\n<p>(1) introducing new variables, for example the temperatures in each part of the intersected cell, and<\/p>\n<p>(2) providing equations from which their values can be deduced.<\/p>\n<p>PARSOL is capable of calculating the fluid-flow phenomena with improved accuracy, whether the flow is laminar or turbulent, and whether heat transfer is present or absent. Accuracy of simulation often requires that the computational grid should be very fine around regions of the domain exhibiting steep gradients of temperature, concentration, density or other significant fluid property. In earlier versions of PHOENICS, this entailed also extending the fineness into regions where it was not required.<\/p>\n<p>Fine-grid embedding, now available, renders this unnecessary; for it is possible to refine the grid ONLY where necessary.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_772\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/finegrid.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-772\" class=\"size-full wp-image-772\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/finegrid.png\" alt=\"fine grid embedding around a car\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/finegrid.png 800w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/finegrid-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">fine grid embedding around a car<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_250\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/parsoljo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-250\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/parsoljo.png\" alt=\"Cut &amp; cell technique\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/parsoljo.png 480w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/parsoljo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cut &amp; cell technique<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><code><code><\/code><\/div><div id=\"plinks1-link-718\" class=\"sh-link plinks1-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('plinks1', 718, 'Customization (+)', 'Customization (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"plinks1-toggle-718\">Customization (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"plinks1-content-718\" class=\"sh-content plinks1-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/code>PHOENICS PLUS (FORTRAN coding) allows users to create customized environments to suit specific needs. Where an organization does not have the resources, or inclination, to undertake development our consultants will use PHOENICS PLUS to carry out the necessary work. If problems involve unique or ground-breaking physics this may not be included in the core of PHOENICS. PHOENICS PLUS allows new physics to be added to augment or replace standard definitions. IN-FORM achieves this on a case-by-case basis whereas additions made using PHOENICS PLUS are available for all cases. In-Form is a supplement to the PHOENICS Input Language which facilitates the input of problem-defining data. Specifically, it allows users to express their requirements through algebraic formulas, whether for:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">\u2022 space and time discretization,<br \/> \u2022 material properties,<br \/> \u2022 initial values,<br \/> \u2022 sources,<br \/> \u2022 boundary conditions,<br \/> \u2022 body shapes and motions, or<br \/> \u2022 Special print-out features.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_514\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/phoenicsplusjo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-514\" class=\"size-full wp-image-514\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/phoenicsplusjo.png\" alt=\"Fortran coding\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/phoenicsplusjo.png 480w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/phoenicsplusjo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fortran coding<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_515\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/informjo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-515\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/informjo.png\" alt=\"TCL coding\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/informjo.png 480w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/informjo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TCL coding<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><code><code><\/div><div id=\"sinks7-link-718\" class=\"sh-link sinks7-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('sinks7', 718, 'Parallel Phoenics (+)', 'Parallel Phoenics (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"sinks7-toggle-718\">Parallel Phoenics (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"sinks7-content-718\" class=\"sh-content sinks7-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/code><\/code>There are two principal reasons for using parallel rather than sequential PHOENICS. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to obtain computational results in a shorter time, and<\/li>\n<li>to use finer grids than a single processor permits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The parallel solver shares the computational domain and task between a number processors; each processor then performs the computations for its part of the domain simultaneously. Thus the whole task may be achieved in a shorter time.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, the more processors used, the shorter the computer time will be. The following table shows the speed-up achieved when carrying out computations on a model with 20 million cells.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_774\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/par_large_speedup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-774\" class=\"size-full wp-image-774\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/par_large_speedup.png\" alt=\"Parallel speedup\" width=\"400\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/par_large_speedup.png 400w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/par_large_speedup-300x294.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parallel speedup<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>It can be seen that there is not a linear relationship between the number of processors and the speed-up ratio. This is because for each additional processor added to the computation pool, there is an additional overhead. Eventually a limit will be reached whereby adding additional processors does not lead to a faster solution time. What this limit is depends on the computational domain under consideration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/parallel1jo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-510 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/parallel1jo.png\" alt=\"Parallel Phoenics\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/parallel1jo.png 480w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/parallel1jo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><code><\/div><div id=\"plinks5-link-718\" class=\"sh-link plinks5-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('plinks5', 718, 'Post-Processing (+)', 'Post-Processing (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"plinks5-toggle-718\">Post-Processing (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"plinks5-content-718\" class=\"sh-content plinks5-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\">Post-processing tools for PHOENICS can be used to generate all graphics and animations for fluid dynamics results. Phoenics output results are available under various formats for:<\/code><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>VR-VIEWER (PHOENICS Post-Processor)<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>TECPLOT<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>FIELDVIEW<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>PARAVIEW<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>PLOT3D<\/code><code><\/div><div id=\"plinks-link-718\" class=\"sh-link plinks-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('plinks', 718, 'Licensing (+)', 'Licensing (-)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"plinks-toggle-718\">Licensing (+)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"plinks-content-718\" class=\"sh-content plinks-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><code>Licensing Options<\/code><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><code>\u2022 Monthly, Annual or Perpetual<br \/>\u2022 32-bit &amp; 64 bit sequential- or parallel-processing<br \/>\u2022 Windows or Linux<br \/><\/code><\/p>\n<h3><code>Special-Purpose Options<\/code><\/h3>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_519\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/licensingjo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-519\" class=\"size-full wp-image-519\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/licensingjo.png\" alt=\"Licensing\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/licensingjo.png 480w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/licensingjo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licensing<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><code>Services<\/code><\/h3>\n<p><code>\u2022 Standard 3 day training course<br \/>\u2022 Day rate for consultancy and model build<br \/>\u2022 Extended consultancy support<\/code><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-718-0-2\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-718-0-2-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"9\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/valve.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-921 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/valve.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/valve.png 800w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/valve-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/arcofluidconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/valve-436x272.png 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">More on PHOENICS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most complete CFD program from CHAM for analysis of processes involving fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, chemical reaction and combustion. 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