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Preprocessor

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    scSTREAM HeatDesigner
Modeling CAD data Interface (import) Parasolid, STEP, JT, STL, IGES, ACIS, CATIA V6, CATIA V5, CATIA V4, Creo Elements/Pro (Pro/Engineer), SOLIDWORKS, NX, Solid Edge, Inventor, DWG, DXF (2D, 3D-face), 3DM, VDAFS, XGL, IDF, Autodesk Revit, ARCHICAD, Nastran, SHAPE, 3ds, SketchUp, IFC, PRE, MDL, NFB, Gerber (RS-274D, RS-274X), IPC-2581B, ODB++ Parasolid, STEP, JT, STL, IGES, ACIS, CATIA V6, CATIA V5, CATIA V4, Creo Elements/Pro (Pro/Engineer), SOLIDWORKS, NX, Solid Edge, Inventor, DWG, DXF (2D, 3D-face), 3DM, VDAFS, XGL, IDF, MDL, NFB, Gerber (RS-274D, RS-274X), IPC-2581B, ODB++
CAD data Interface (export) Parasolid, STL, MDL, NFB Parasolid, STL, MDL, NFB
Primitives Cuboid, hexagon, cylinder, cone, sphere, revolved rectangle, point, panel (orthogonal, quadrilateral), 2.5D solid part, pipe components, fan (flat, axial, blower), electronics (including chassis, thermal circuit model (two-resistor, DELPHI, multi-resistor), fin, slits, Peltier device, heat pipes), air-conditioning appliances (including 4 way cassette, 2 way cassette, wall type, floor type, outdoor unit, anemostat, linear diffuser) Cuboid, hexagon, cylinder, cone, sphere, point, panel (orthogonal, quadrilateral), 2.5D solid part, pipe components, fan (flat, axial, blower), electronics (including chassis, thermal circuit model (two-resistor, DELPHI, multi-resistor), fin, slits, Peltier device, heat pipes)
Geometry modification Boolean operation (sum, subtract,multiply, divide), shape simplification (deformer, filling hole, projection deletion, R fillet deletion), copy, mirror copy, wrapping, solid edit Boolean operation (sum, subtract, multiply, divide), shape simplification (deformer, filling hole, projection deletion, R fillet deletion), copy, mirror copy, wrapping. solid edit
Registration of parts library ● ●
Mesh generation Tetrahedron ● (finite element model)  
Hexahedron ● (cylindrical coordinate system)  
Cuboid ● ●
Cut-cell ●  
Conditions Easy set-up through wizard ● ●
Preset default conditions ● ●
Unused dialogs hidden ● ●
Collective settings to undefined regions ● ●
Material property library (editable) ● ●
Laminated materials ● ●
Absorption-desorption property calculation ●  
Operation and control environment VB Interface ● ●
Selectable mouse operation modes ● ●
Mapping ●  
Viewer mode ● ●

 

Solver


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    scSTREAM HeatDesigner
Mesh Structured
mesh
●(Cartesian or cylindrical coordinate) ● (Cartesian coordinate)
Unstructured
mesh
● (finite element model)  
Multiblock ● ●
Cut-cell ● (solid, panel, thin shape)  
Moving objects ●  
6-degree-of-freedom motion (6DOF) ●  
Numerical scheme Finite volume method ● ●
Pressure
correction
SIMPLEC, SIMPLE SIMPLEC
Convection
term accuracy
1st/3rd (QUICK/WENO) upwind scheme 1st/3rd (QUICK/WENO) upwind scheme
Matrix MICCG, ILUCR, ILUCGS, FMGCG, FMGCGS MICCG, ILUCR, ILUCGS, FMGCG, FMGCGS
Non-linear coupled solver ● (JFNK method)  
Steady-state/transient calculation ● ●
Flow types Incompressible
fluid
● ●
Compressible
fluid
●  
Non-Newtonian
fluid
●  
Buoyancy
(Boussinesq
approximation)
● ●
Buoyancy
(low-Mach-number approximation)
●  
Multiple fluids ●  
Gas mixing ●  
Foaming resin
model
●  
Turbulence models   Standard k-ε model, RNG k-ε model, MP k-ε model, AKN linear low-Reynolds-number model, MPAKN linear low-Reynolds-number model, Non-linear low-Reynolds-number model, Improved LK k-ε model, Two-equation heat transfer (NK) model (high Reynolds number), Two-equation heat transfer (AKN) model (linear low-Reynolds-number), LES (Smagorinsky, Dynamic Smagorinsky, WALE, mixed-time scale) Standard k-ε model,
AKN linear low-Reynolds-number model
Thermal
analysis
Heat conduction (fluid/solid) ● ●
Convective heat transfer ● ●
Heat radiation (view factor method) ● ●
Heat radiation (flux method) ●  
Heat conduction panel ● ●
Solar radiation ● (direct / sky solar radiation / reflection)  
Lamp (graphic output of rays) ●  
Joule heat ●  
Mean radiation temperature calculation ●  
Global solar radiation calculation ●  
Diffusion
analysis
Diffusivity ●  
Sedimentation rate ●  
SORET effect ●  
Index for ventilation effciency Age of air, life expectancy of air, inlet contribution rate ●  
Thermal comfort index PMV / SET* / WBGT ●  
Illumination analysis Solar radiation / lamp (graphic output of rays) ●  
Humidity/dew condensation analysis Relative humidity / absolute humidity ●  
Dew condensation ●  
Humidity transfer in solid ●  
Reaction analysis Chemical reaction ●  
Combustion ●
Eddy-dissipation model, PDF (Probability Density Function) method
 
Particle analysis Marker particles ●  
Mass particles ●  
Reactant particles ●  
Charged particles ●  
Spray model ●  
Transforming dew condensation ●  
Transforming fluid/volume rate ● (MARS method)  
Discrete element method (DEM) Contact model Linear spring dashpot model, Hertz-Mindlin model, Walton-Braun model  
Cloth model ●  
Cohesion model ●  
Thermal ●  
Ad/desorption (Humidity) ●  
Multiphase flow analysis Free surface ● (VOF method, MARS method)  
Solidification / melting ● (VOF method, MARS method)  
Boiling / condensation ● (MARS method)  
Evaporation / condensation ● (MARS method)  
Current
analysis
Conductor current ●  
Conductor potential ●  
Braking effect of static magnetic field ●  
Electric field analysis Electrostatic field ●  
Thermal circuit model 2-resistor / multi-resistor / DELPHI model ● ●
Thermo-regulation model JOS-2, JOS-3 ●  
Optimization Topology optimization ●  
Flow
conditions
Velocity ● ●
Power-law velocity ●  
Volume flow rate ● ●
Radial volume flow rate ●  
Pressure
(static, total)
● ●
Natural inflow / outflow ● ●
Air-conditioner model ●  
Fan model ● ●
Wave generation, wave dissipation ● (MARS method)  
Thermal conditions Fixed temperature ● ●
Heat source ● ●
Heat transfer coefficient ● ●
Contact heat transfer coefficient ● ●
Wall conditions No-slip (stationary wall) ● ●
Free-slip (symmetry wall) ● ●
Log-law condition ● ●
Power-law condition ●  
Surface roughness ● ●
Pressure conditions Fixed pressure ● ●
Pressure loss ● ●
Porous media ●  
Source conditions Volume force/pressure loss ● ●
Heat source ● ●
Smoke source (diffusing materials) ●  
Turbulence generation ●  
Humidification ●  
Plant canopy ●  
User-defined conditions Variables table / functions ● ●
Scripts (JavaScript) ● ●
User-defined function (compilation required) ●  
Calculation control environment Job management ● ●
Monitoring the calculation status ● ●
Email notification of the calculation ● ●
VB interface ● ●
Output post files   Software Cradle post files (FLD, iFLD) Software Cradle post files (FLD, iFLD)
Reduced-order model BCI-ROM ●  
Output for third party software   Abaqus, Nastran, Femtet, ADVENTURECluster, JMAG-Designer, EMSolution, Optimus, Isight, modeFRONTIER Autodesk Revit, ARCHICAD, EnSight, FieldView, Adams, Marc, nTop Abaqus, Nastran, Femtet,
ADVENTURECluster, JMAG-Designer, EMSolution, Optimus, Isight, modeFRONTIER, EnSight, FieldView, nTop

 

Postprocessor


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    scSTREAM HeatDesigner
Drawing functions Mesh, vector, contour plots ●
Isosurface, streamline, pathline, volume rendering ●
Geometry display ● (STL file, NFB file, Wavefront OBJ file)
2D graph ●
Mirror/Periodical copy ●
Vortex center ●
Drawing position / orientation Arbitrary plane, surface, entire volume, cylinder ●
Streamlines, isosurface ●
Pathlines ●
Arbitrary scaling ●
Arbitrary pick ● (scalar / vector value)
Special effects Oil flow ● (on plane / surface)
Texture mapping ● (on plane / surface, arbitrary geometry with texture)
Lighting, luster, gradation ● (preset, arbitrary)
Transparency, water-like expression, shadow ●
Ray, Cloth, String, Surface of particles, Road line, Heat transfer, IPC-2581 ●
Photorealistic ●
Animation Vector animation ●
Flow line animation ●
Cut-plane weeping ●
Marker particle ● (turbulent diffusion effect)
Automatic translation of view point ● (view / focus points can be set)
Key-frame animation, Time line ●
Animation interpolated between cycles ●
Analysis results Variable registration (function registration) ●
Integral
(surface / volume)
● (scalar / vector integration)
Comparison ● (clipping function, image compare)
Projected area calculation ●
Automatic search of the local max / min positions ●
Import of CSV data ●
Automatic change of colorbar ● (preset, arbitrary)
Complex values data graphing ●
Data image output Microsoft BMP, JPG, PNG ● (size, resolution adjustable)
CradleViewer ● (support steady-state / transient animation, attach to Office applications)
AVI, WMV, MP4 ●
VRML, FBX, STL, glTF ●
Copy&paste 3D onto Powerpoint ●
Operation and control environment Selectable help function ●
OpenGL (Hardware acceleration, software rendering) ●
VB interface ●
Selectable mouse operation modes ●
Stereoscopic view (side-by-side) ●
Plug-in functionality ●
Partial open field file by SSH ●
3D-ROM File reading ●

 

Miscellaneous

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    scSTREAM HeatDesigner
scConverter
Mapping
Cradle fld,fph -> Nastran nas,bdf ●
Cradle fld,fph -> Abaqus inp ●
Cradle fld,fph -> I-Deas unv ●
Cradle fld,fph -> fld ●
scConverter
Conversion
Nastran nas,bdf -> Cradle fld,fph ●
Abaqus inp,fil -> Cradle fld ●
I-Deas unv -> Cradle fld ●
Cradle fld,pre -> Abaqus inp ●
cgns <--> Cradle fld,fph ●
Cradle p -> Cradle fld ●
Cradle fld -> Cradle iFLD ●
scConverter
Edit field files
Variable Registration ●
Cycle Operation ●
Scale conversion ●
Connect ●
Trimming ●
Edit titles ●
scConverter
Edit movies
Sequence number images(BMP,PNG,JPG) ●
Cross-fade ●
Image synthesis ●
Frame rate setting ●
Bit rate setting ●
Image size setting ●
Compress/Uncompress AVI, WMV ●
Continuous images from a movie file ●
scConverter
Structure Function
Transient thermal resistance -> Structure Function ●
Graph ●
HeatPathView List view ●
Heat balance ●
Heat path ●
Network diagram ●
Volume,Surface area,Thermal resistance of parts ●
Link with postprocessor ●
Route calculation by 2 and passing points ●
CSV output ●
scMonitor Navigation setting for 3D-ROM ●
Create 3D-ROM with VB Interface ●
Cradle XR AR function for iPhone/iPad ●