AcuSolve by ACUSIM

ACUSIM Software is a leading provider of powerful computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver solutions. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, ACUSIM Software markets its flagship product, AcuSolve™ and its associated pre-processor, AcuConsole™ globally.

ACUSIM Enabled Solutions:

AcuSolve, AcuConsole
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Category: CFD

What is AcuSolve?

AcuSolve™ is a leading general-purpose finite element-based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) flow solver with superior robustness, speed, and accuracy. AcuSolve can be used by designers and research engineers with all levels of expertise, either as a standalone product or seamlessly integrated into a powerful design and analysis application. With AcuSolve, users can quickly obtain quality solutions without iterating on solution procedures or worrying about mesh quality or topology.

Key Features & Benefits

Conservative Equations in 3D

  • Incompressible & weakly compressible Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations
  • Thermal analysis and conjugate heat transfer
  • Multi-layered thermal shell equations
  • Multi-species transport equations

Radiation

  • Gray body enclosure radiation
  • View-factor computation (in parallel)
  • Solar radiation model

Turbulence Models

  • One- and two-equation RANS model
  • Smagorinsky and Dynamic sub-grid scale LES models
  • Hybrid RANS/LES (DES & DDES) models

Arbitrary Eulerian Lagrangian (ALE) Technology

  • Flexible mesh movement
  • Free surface simulation
  • Guide surface technology
  • Sliding mesh technology

Powerful User-Defined Function (UDF) Capability

  • Allows definition of material models, source terms, boundary conditions, etc.
  • Client-server interface with external programs

Component Technology

  • Fan component
  • Heat exchange component

Multiphysics Capabilities

  • Rigid body dynamics coupling
  • Practical Fluid/Structure Interaction (P-FSI)
  • Direct-Coupling Fluid/Structure Interaction (DC-FSI)

Applications

Automotive

Chemical Mixing

Process Intensifier

Electronic Cooling

Design of Blood Handling Devices

Blood Pump Design Optimization

Train Aerodynamic Interaction

Offshore Platform Hydrodynamics

Compact Heat Exchanger Elements

Brick/Tet Element Comparison

Isentropic and Ideal Gas Density Relationships

Turbulent Particle Tracking

Tollmien-Schlicting Wave Propagation

Tube-Fin (Plain) Heat Exchanger

Modules

    • AcuSolve Solver
    • AcuView
    • Acutrace

    • Specifications

    Application name Modules included Hardware platforms
    AcuSolve AcuSolve
    AcuView
    AcuTrace    		 Windows (32 bit) on X86
    Windows (64 bit) on X86-64
    Linux (64 bit) on X86-64