Putting the Spin in CFD
This report is for Engineers who design equipment with rotating components, and who need to analyze and understand the behavior of those components if they want to improve performance.
Engineers who design equipment with rotating components need to analyze and understand the behavior of those components if they want to improve performance. Computational Fluid Dynamics is a perfect tool for studying rotating components. It helps eliminate expensive physical prototypes, and find serious flaws much earlier in the design process. This article explains the operation of one such CFD tool, SolidWorks® Flow Simulation. SolidWorks software uses both the single and multiple rotating reference frame approaches to solve rotating flow problems.
