SimScale has announced its August 2024 Product Update, adding improved accuracy and streamlined simulation workflows among a host of new capabilities.
Electrostatic simulation has been added to the platform, allowing users to identify electric fields and charges in the presence of conductive and insulating materials, ensuring safe designs for high-voltage equipment.
Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) updates includes SimScale supporting revolutions per minute, radiant per second and degree per second as rotational units in its CFD solvers.
Volumetric flow rates can now be specified using units including cubic feet per minute and gallon per minute.
Users can now model porous media within multi-purpose CFD simulations, which simplifies the setup of simulations previously involving filtration systems, screens, radiators and other pressure loss obstacles.
A new post-processing filter called ‘Rotational’ enables blade-to-blade flow visualisation in turbomachinery simulations, allowing users to analyse flow vectors, mesh and contours through the blades.
The multi-purpose solver feature now supports simulations involving the mixing of gases with different densities and viscosities in various applications, including gas dispersion from a chimney and CO2 mixture analysis in carbon capture techniques.
Both Conjugate Heat Transfer solvers (v2.0 and IBM) can be used for accurate modelling of applications where material properties vary with temperatures. Users can now create temperature-dependent tables in the simulation for thermal conductivity and specific heat.
Several data visualisation enhancements have been added for the ease of the user, including the ability to plot tables of input data. These can either be created within the platform or imported as a .csv file.
Additionally, SimScale now supports the simulation of pinned joints using virtual pin connectors between cylindrical faces. This feature allows for body-to-body or body-to-ground connections and offers full control over the kinematic behavior of pinned connections, including torsional and axial spring stiffness.
The full list of updates is available to view on SimScale’s website.
