Mentor Graphics Corp. recently announced the addition of several new capabilities to its Flowmaster(R) simulation software solution for thermo-fluid systems, including features for pre-processing, simulation, data management and design collaboration.
The new Flowmaster “experiments” capability allows users to “create response surfaces and export meta-model data as either standard ANSI C code or as S-Functions for use in a real-time environment providing support for hardware-in-the-loop simulations.”
“Our ‘experiments’ features in the new Flowmaster release continue to provide our customers with the ability to conduct superior ‘what-if’ analysis for fluid flow simulations,” Erich Buergel, general manager of the Mentor Graphics mechanical analysis division, said. “The ability to export Flowmaster models as C code or S-Functions allows us to support systems engineers performing system level testing of embedded systems in real-time environments.”
In addition, the new analysis tool provides engineers with the capability to “implement an integrated native 1D-3D solution” by utilizing FloEFD products in combination with the software.
“Having access to the tightly coupled, general purpose 1D-3D CFD simulation of Flowmaster and FloEFD will enable us to characterize the more complex components of a system in 3D and insert those characteristics into the 1D system level models for simulation, thereby taking advantage of higher accuracy for components and minimizing the computational resources and execution times at a system level,” Sudhi Uppuluri, principal investigator at Computational Sciences Expert Group, said.
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