Fans & Blowers
CFdesign allows you to reliably simulate and optimize the design, placement, and performance of critical components and systems like hydraulics, pneumatics, valves, blowers, fans, pumps, compressors, heatsinks, heat exchangers, cooling fans, power supplies, manifolds, HVAC components, motors, turbomachinery, even entire electronics systems all while on the “digital drawing board”.
CFdesign Solves Tough Problems
- To accurately analyze the complex physics of a fan, the CFD tool must rotate the moving, solid, fan next to the stationary parts of the machine. CFdesign lets part-time users do this quickly using proprietary automation.
- Setting up actual, rotating fan models from CAD in CFdesign is as easy as setting up a basic flow analysis. CFdesign automates the detail necessary to accurately capture the physics of a rotating solid
- Interface details like static flow straighteners, interaction between the fan and its housing, etc. are critical to understanding the performance of a design and how to make it better. CFdesign works on your native CAD to allow all parts of your assembly to play their role in the analysis associatively
- Periodic and 2-dimensional anlaysis is a capability of CFdesign as well, allowing designers a very fast tool to quickly optimize their blade designs for fans, turbine, and compressors
Customer Brief
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Berner uses CFdesign to assist and accelerate the development of air doors that can stop 30 mpg gusts and work in openings up to 30-ft high. The ability to conduct extensive early stage design reviews prior to the construction of a physical prototype gives Berner engineers the ability to efficiently sort through all the ‘what ifs’ until all product quality and innovation objectives are achieved.
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Four Reasons Why CFdesign Will Work For You
1. CFdesign fits you
It’s a tool – use it when you need it. When you’re done, put it back in your toolbox. When you come back to it for the next project you’ll still remember how to use it.
2. CFdesign fits your process
If you use a CAD-centric process to design and engineer new products, then CFdesign will fit your existing process. No need to hire new personnel, change the job duties of current staff, buy new computers, or otherwise change the way you are doing business today.
3. CFdesign reduces your department-level expenses
Our customers report an average reduction of project expenses by 65% while reducing project schedules by 70%. The “payback” for CFdesign is usually achieved on the first project.
4. CFdesign opens doors to innovation
Building and testing a physical prototype is an essential part of the validation process but it is a poor method for achieving design optimization. It takes more than a few data points from a flow bench or transducers to point the way to innovative design. CFdesign shows you all the aspects of product performance you have been missing.