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Beside software developed by MEFOS commercial FE codes are also used.
FLUENT®
FLUENT®
is a general-purpose commercial computer program for modelling fluid flow,
heat transfer, mass transfer and chemical reactions. FLUENT®
solves the full steady-state and transient Navier-Stokes equations
using a finite volume method in 2-D or 3-D geometries.
FLUENT®
allows the user to model a wide range of fluid flow processes including laminar
or turbulent flows, incompressible flows, heat transfer and reacting flows. In
reheating-furnace applications, FLUENT® is used for
analysis of the gas flow distribution, convective and radiant heat transfer,
etc. It gives a greater knowledge of the flow fields and plays an important
part in the design process. It is also possible to incorporate one's own models
into FLUENT® through user-defined C subroutines
such as predictions of NOx concentration, etc.
FLUENT®
is available on a wide range of hardware platforms from PCs to supercomputers.
PHOENICS
PHENICS is a general purpose software for modelling fluid flow, heat transfer, mass transfer and other transport phenomena. PHOENICS solves the full Navier-Stokes equations both stedy-stage and transient for 2-D and 3-D geometries.
It is possible to incorporate custom-made models in PHOENICS through user-defined FORTRAN sub-routines.
PHOENICS is available on a wide range of platforms such as PC, Linux etc.
SYSWELD®
A
commercial computer program used to analyse surface treatment, welding and
quenching. The computer code, SYSWELD®, uses FEM
for the modelling of manufacturing processes involving metallurgical phase
changes. SYSWELD® includes:
- classical
capabilities in the field of nonlinear analysis such as heat transfer and
mechanics.
- additional
capabilities to take interactions between metallurgy and both heat transfer and
strain-stress computations into account.
- fully
coupled heat transfer and metallurgy analysis (metallurgical phase computation,
modelling of latent heat effects due to metallurgical transformations using an
enthalpy approach and thermophysical properties depending on metallurgical
phases).
- stress-strain
computation (thermal and metallurgical loading, phase transformations lead to
volume variations and special material behaviour at different metallurgical
phases and transformation plasticity).
LS-DYNA3D
LS-DYNA3D
is an explicit three-dimensional finite element code with parallel computing
capacities for analysing the large deformation dynamic response of inelastic
solids and structures. A contact-impact algorithm permits gaps and sliding
along material interfaces with friction. Using a specialisation of
this algorithm, such interfaces can be rigidly tied to admit variable zoning
without the need for transition regions. Spatial discretisation is
achieved by the use of 8-node solid elements, 2-node beam elements, 4-node
shell elements, 8-node solid shell elements, truss elements, membrane elements,
discrete elements and rigid bodies. The equations of motion are integrated in
time by the central difference method. LS-DYNA3D currently contains more than
fifty material models and eleven equations of state to cover a wide range of
material behaviour.
MARC
MARC is a
commercial nonlinear FEM program with an implicit solver and Parallel
processing capabilities. MARC is especially used for analysing forming
processes such as forging, rolling, extrusion, etc. Using MARC, modelling and
remeshing in 3D can be done with tetrahedral elements. Remeshing is done
automatically by the program at certain degrees of strains. MARC supports
thermomechanical coupling, and therefore analysis of long cooling times can be
combined with analyses of transient processes.
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