FloEFD
FloEFD is 'Concurrent CFD', Always available, just a 'click' away. Analyze as you design and speed up your workflow...
FloEFD is the ONLY computational fluid dynamics analysis tool that is truly embedded into major MCAD systems. These include Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA, and SolidWorks; and tight integration with, Siemens NX, Inventor and SolidEdge. FloEFD is a full-featured 3D fluid flow, heat transfer analysis package that is both fast to learn and fast to use because it doesn’t come with the numerical complexity and meshing overheads of traditional high-end CFD.
FloEFD.Pro 9 Trial Version for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
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
Optimize designs
FloEFD allows engineers to optimize their designs in the shortest possible time by removing the complexities of numerical/mathematical schemes and computational mesh creation.
Industries around the world such as aerospace, automotive, medical devices, industrial machinery, pumps/ valves etc, use ‘concurrent’ FloEFD to:
- Improve product performance, functionality and reliability
- Reduce physical prototyping and production costs
- Minimize risk of making design mistakes
- Save both time and money by reducing design times and speeding up workflow
FloEFD Demo
Technology OverviewDesign better, more reliable products, faster with Concurrent CFD - embedded computational fluid dynamics purposely designed for the Design Engineer. FloEFD allows users to perform quick, accurate CFD analysis... View Video
Highlights
Easy-to-use CAD embedded Concurrent CFD
For analysis to become an integral part of the design process, it must be easy to use and able to adapt readily to your design process. Developed for engineers, FloEFD turns CFD analysis into a plug-in for CAD. Because of its intuitive interface, FloEFD is extremely easy to use – in fact, most design engineers report that they can use FloEFD with less than 8 hours of training.
Quickly generate reports
You can create and distribute your animated results as well as quickly generate reports in Microsoft ® Excel and Word, including all your favorite plots.
Analysis wizard
FloEFD’s powerful wizard guides you through the problem set-up so you don’t forget any important steps before the solution step.
Effortless what-if testing
Perhaps the most powerful feature of FloEFD is the ease with which you can conduct “what-if” analysis. Easily modify your models and immediately analyze them: : FloEFD helps you create multiple variations of your designs by modifying your solid model without needing to reapply loads, boundary conditions, etc. Simply compare your many design options and choose the best one for your final design!
Robust visualization
Once you have analyzed your problem, viewing the results is a matter of point-and-click: simply choose the appropriate options from a menu and the system will quickly generate your desired plots.
FloEFD Product Family
FloEFD.Pro
CFD embedded in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
FloEFD.V5
CFD embedded in CATIA V5
FloEFD.Pro: CFD embedded in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
FloEFD.V5: CFD embedded in CATIA V5
Unlike other CFD programs, FloEFD.Pro and FloEFD.V5 work directly with native Pro/ENGINEER and native CATIA V5 geometry, respectively – with no translation or copies – in order to keep pace with on-going design changes. FloEFD.Pro and FloEFD.V5 has the same “look and feel” so you can focus on solving your problem instead of learning a new environment.
Both versions directly use Pro/ENGINEER and CATIA V5 geometry and solid model information such as features and parameters to help you simulate your designs in real-word conditions. Direct use of native geometry is an extremely powerful feature since it provides you with functionality that is not easily offered by other CFD programs.
Since you’re using the same exact geometry for CAD and analysis, you maintain one set of data across your product design process, and your analysis is always in tune with your design.
FloEFD for Inventor, Siemens NX, SolidEdge and SolidWorks
Works with your MCAD software
FloEFD for Inventor, Siemens NX, SolidEdge and SolidWorks
The analysis process with FloEFD is fast, intuitive and effortless.
FloEFD fits within your product development process – from concept to customer support. Plus, its interface will be familiar as it offers many of the same time-saving and ease-of-use functionality offered by leading mechanical computer-aided design systems.
Combined with your MCAD software, FloEFD provides you with a powerful simulation tool and reduces the need for building multiple costly physical prototypes.
FloEFD.Flexx
For multi-CAD strategies
FloEFD.Flexx allows companies with multi-CAD strategies to use FloEFD with their preferred CAD system.
AEG Design Tools
The power tool manufacturer creates more efficient engine designs in far less time with FloEFD computational fluid dynamics software. View
Toolbox
- Product Demo: FloEFD.V5 Demo
- Product Demo: FloEFD for Pro/ENGINEER
- TECHPUB: Accelerating Automotive Design with Engineering Fluid Dynamics
- TECHPUB: Solving the System-Level Thermal Management Challenges of LEDs
- TECHPUB: EFD Meshing Technology
Contact Mentor Graphics
- FloEFD™ Info Request or call toll free: 1-800-547-3000
blogs
Force Prediction with Concurrent CFD
Some people think that because Concurrent CFD is so easy to use it must be simplistic. Nothing could be further from the truth. FloEFD has some very sophisticated physical models for cavitation, combustion,…View Blog Post
Champcar Exhaust Analysis
Using CAD-embedded CFD upfront and throughout the design process is the only way to go when it comes to compressing design schedules. We call this approach Concurrent CFD, as the CFD analysis can be done…View Blog Post
Quantitavely Seeding the Flow
I think that we can all agree that one feature of CFD over test is the ability to visualize where the flow is going. It is quite easy in CFD analysis tools, at least in our tools, to seed the flow any…View Blog Post