I travel a fair bit. Sometimes it’s a short hop across the channel to the Continent and sometimes it’s a long haul flight to the States.
Regardless of whether the flight is one hour, 3 hours or 15 hours, you mentally need to prepare yourself for several things: sitting next to someone with a cold/cough, sitting behind someone who will immediately recline their seat and reduce your usable leg space … Read More
Tags: FloVENT, FloEFD, Visualization
Hi everyone,
I’ve been a bit silent for the past couple of months but there’s a good reason for it. I’ve been working behind the scenes organizing a few events. And now I’m very pleased to announce our upcoming Mechanical U2Us — a series of Mechanical Analysis Division specific User 2 User meetings which will be held around the world. If you are unfamiliar with the Mechanical … Read More
Tags: FloVENT, FloEFD, Mechanical U2U
Welcome to Part IV of a multi-part series, where in this installment Travis continues the “virtual” look at his crawlspace.
In the previous installment of “this old CFD house”, we started to peel back the veil on my crawlspace and its moisture issue. I analyzed the problem as it is, and we made some enlightening findings. First, really the only way air is getting into the crawlspace is … Read More
Tags: Computational Fluid Dynamics, crawlspace, CFD, HVAC, FloVENT, humidity
Welcome to Part III of a multi-part series, where in this installment Travis takes a “virtual” look at his crawlspace.
For this next installment of “this old CFD house”, and really the entire reason I started this blog series, I’d like to take a look in my crawlspace. Now, from what I understand, Feng Shui says running water is good for wealth. Well the opposite is true when you have … Read More
Tags: Computational Fluid Dynamics, crawlspace, CFD, HVAC, FloVENT, humidity
FloTHERM, and its sister product FloVENT, have been going since 1989. Many in the Mechanical Analysis Division in Mentor have been working on these products for that time, personally I’m up to 15 years. It’s testament to the products and their success that our passion for them continues unabated. V9.2 was released this week, the ~20th release in these product lines. Many vendors will stand … Read More
Tags: CTM, Electronics Cooling, bottleneck, FloVENT
Welcome to Part II of a multi-part series where, in this installment, Travis takes a look at a typical chimney.
For this next installment of “this old CFD house”, I’d like to investigate another gremlin that was discovered during the inspection period of the house we are purchasing. This one related to the chimney. The current damper is rusted and hard to operate. According to the chimney expert we … Read More
Tags: Chimney, Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD, HVAC, efficiency, FloVENT
The CAD/CAM/CAE market has been fairly stable over the past few years – we get a merger to two every few years. But over the past couple of months we’ve seen a couple of acquisitions. While one acquisition in a quiet market is interesting, two may be the beginnings of a trend. So I thought we could look at the recent developments from the perspective of you – the end-user of technology — and how … Read More
When I saw that Robin had written a blog about a beer fridge I thought he had beaten me to the punch. In my spare time I too have been using our CFD tools to analyze a beer fridge. The differences are I am using FloVENT and my fridge is a self-service refrigerated showcase. The story of the showcase is not complete but I want to provide the first installment.
The idea of the open (self-service) refrigerated … Read More
Tags: Refrigerated Display, CFD, Refrigerator, Optimization, FloVENT
I’d like to introduce my first guest blogger, Travis Mikjaniec. Travis is a colleague of mine who is entering the world of home ownership. Travis has questioned some of the recommendations from the various home inspectors. In a multi-part series Travis will debunk or otherwise quantify the value of the recommendations.
Starting the process of buying a house is a daunting task. Beyond all the … Read More
Tags: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Duct Flow, CFD, FloVENT, HVAC
The recently released FloEFD HVAC Module brings a raft of features specifically tailored to enable FloEFD to be used for built environment simulations. FloEFD has an unrivalled pedigree in the automating of advance CFD (computational fluid dynamics) techniques and capabilities, allowing the user to focus on application and not numerics. This democratisation of CFD brings the ability to simulate the … Read More
Tags: FloEFD HVAC Module, FloVENT, FloEFD, HVAC
Jim Martens
John Day
J VanDomelen
Michael Ford
Dennis Brophy
Mike Jensen
Colin Walls
Tom Fitzpatrick
Max Clark
Patrick Carrier
Mark Laing
Travis Mikjaniec
Christopher Hallinan
Bernard Sutton