Mechanical Analysis

The Mechanical Analysis Division of Mentor Graphics (formerly Flomerics) provides the world's most advanced computational fluid dynamics products. Our simulation software and consultancy services eliminate mistakes, reduce costs, and accelerate and optimize designs involving heat transfer and fluid flow before physical prototypes are built.

FloEFD

Tightly integrated with major MCAD systems including Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, and CATIA, FloEFD is fully-featured 3D fluid flow and heat transfer analysis software. FloEFD™

FloTHERM

FloTHERM is a powerful 3D computational fluid dynamics software that predicts airflow and heat transfer in and around electronic equipment, including the coupled effects of conduction, convection and radiation. FloTHERM®

FloEFD.Pro 9 Trial Version

Software Evaluation: Try concurrent FloEFD.Pro 9 software, fully embedded in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. The 60 day trial software includes heat transfer, pressure drop, exhaust manifold, mixing armature and roof-mounted figure... View Software Evaluation

FloEFD for Pro/ENGINEER

Product Demo: This web demo shows the use of the FloEFD program for Pro/ENGINEER View Product Demo

FloVIZ Viewer

Download: The FloVIZ viewer allows anyone to freely open, interact with and animate the analysis results generated by FloTHERM, FloTHERM.PCB and FloVENT. View Download

CFD in the Data Center

It's not all about the Hall - Designing the Datacenter, Inside and OutOn-demand Web Seminar: See how FloVENT CFD software simulates air flow for data center design, including the data hall and sub-systems. View On-demand Web Seminar

The Right Choice

See how Electronics Cooling software has evolved into a comprehensive tool-set that maps onto the electronics design flow.
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Design Areas

Engineering Fluid Dynamics

Simulate and analyze fluid flow and heat transfer quicker and easier with FloEFD Engineering Fluid Dynamics simulation software, which can be fully embedded into your mechanical CAD environment.

Electronics Cooling

FloTHERM thermal analysis software and MicReD thermal characterization products and services help leading electronics companies around the world create faster, more reliable, and more profitable electronics products.

Building Heating and Ventilation

Optimize airflow, temperature distribution, and contamination control in and around buildings and vehicles with FloVENT airflow modeling software. Our Data Center cooling simulation tools lead the industry.

Techpubs and Resources

Mechanical Analysis Techpubs

CFD for Mechanical Design Engineers - “A Paradigm Shift for Better Design”

Techpub: CIMDataThis paper provides CIMdata’s perspective on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis; the motivations for its use,... View Techpub

Fluid Dynamics Simulation Keeps Aerospace Design Costs Trim

Techpub: Aerospace manufacturers, like most other industries, are urgently pursuing cost-saving measures to deal with today’s economic and market realities. But due to the complexity of aerospace products... View Techpub

Energy Efficient Laboratory Design

Techpub: This paper investigates a novel approach to improving indoor air quality and thermal comfort of laboratory facilities. View Techpub

Customer Success: Schüco International

Schüco International, one of the leading producers of photovoltaic panels uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to redesign its photovoltaic panels so they more efficiently utilize natural convection to cool themselves. Schüco International

From the Blogs

Vision at 40+

John R Wilson's Blog

I got my eyes checked on Friday and I walked out of there over $400 lighter in the wallet, and I’m covered under two vision insurance policies.  What did I get? An eye exam for contact lenses Some…View Blog Post

"Sledgehammer CFD" - The Best Approach?

David Tatchell’s Blog

Re-reading my last blog (Beginning at the Beginning …5 Parabolic or Elliptic, Or Somewhere In Between?) a slightly disturbing thought occurred to me. Does the distinction, highlighted in that blog, between…View Blog Post

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