Functions (scFLOW & SC/Tetra)

Preprocessor

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		scFLOW	SC/Tetra
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 (3D-face), 3DM, VDAFS, IFC, Nastran, MDL, CGNS	Parasolid, STEP, STL, IGES, ACIS, CATIA V5, CATIA V4, Creo Elements/Pro (Pro/Engineer), SOLIDWORKS, NX, Solid Edge, Inventor, DXF (3D-face), VDAFS, Abaqus, Nastran, Design Space, Plot3D, CGNS
	CAD data Interface (export)	Parasolid, MDL	STL, Nastran, CGNS, Parasolid, MDL
	Primitives	Cuboid, cylinder, sphere, rectangle (panel)	Cuboid, cylinder, sphere, rectangle (panel)
	Geometry modification	Data cleaning, editing solid, editing sheet, cross-section and extraction, coordinate conversion, wrapping	Data cleaning, editing solid, editing sheet, cross-section and extraction, coordinate conversion, turbomachinery (single-pitch extraction), wrapping
Mesh generation and faceter	Tetrahedron		●
	Pentahedron (prism, pyramid)		●
	Hexahedron		● (manual setting）
	Cuboid	● (when the spacial hexahedral mesh is used)	● (when the internal hexahedral mesh is used)
	Polygon (polyhedron)	●
	Sweep mesh	●	●
	Thin mesh	●
	Voxel fitting mesher	●
	Solid-based surface mesher	●
	Parasolid faceter	●	●
	Solid-based facetor	●
Conditions	Easy set-up through wizard	●	●
	Unused dialogs hidden	●	●
	Collective settings to undefined regions	●	●
	Material property library (editable)	●	●
	Laminated materials	●	● (laminated panel)
Operation and control environment	VB Interface	●	●
	Selectable mouse operation modes	●	●
	Mapping	●	●
	Viewer mode	●

Solver

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		scFLOW	SC/Tetra
Mesh	Unstructured mesh	●	●
	Overset mesh	●	●
	Mesh adaptation	●	●
	Mesh adaptation in solver	●
	Discontinuous mesh interface	●	●
	ALE (rotation, translation, stretch)	●	●
	6-degree-of-freedom motion (6DOF)	●	●
	Mixing plane	●	●
Numerical scheme	Finite volume method	●	●
	Pressure correction	SIMPLEC, SIMPLE, PISO	SIMPLEC, SIMPLE, revised SIMPLEC
	Convection term accuracy	1st/2nd order (MUSCL/QUICK) upwind scheme, 2nd-order central difference (LES）	1st/2nd order (MUSCL/QUICK) upwind scheme, 2nd-order central difference (LES）
	Matrix	MILUCG-STAB, AMGCG-STAB, CGCCG-STAB	MILUCG-STAB, AMG, AMGCG-STAB, CGCCG-STAB
	Density based	● (defect correction method, JFNK method)	● (defect correction method)
	Steady-state / transient calculation	●	●
Flow types	Incompressible fluid	●	●
	Compressible fluid	●	●
	Non-Newtonian fluid	●	●
	Buoyancy (Boussinesq approximation)	●	●
	Multiple fluids	●	●
	Gas mixing	●	●
Turbulence models		Standard k-ε model, RNG k-ε model, MP k-ε model, AKN linear low-Reynolds number k-ε model, realizable k-ε model, SST k-ω model, MPAKN linear low-Reynolds number k-ε model, Spalart-Allmaras one equation model, SA-comp model, LKE k-kL-ε model, SST-SAS model, LES, DES	Standard k-ε model, RNG k-ε model, MP k-ε model, AKN linear low-Reynolds number k-ε model, GPC linear low-Reynolds number k-ε model, non-linear low-Reynolds number k-ε model, realizable k-ε model, SST k-ω model, MPAKN linear low-Reynolds number k-ε model, Spalart-Allmaras one equation model, LKE k-kL-ω model, SST-SAS model, LES, DES, VLES
Thermal analysis	Heat conduction (fluid/solid)	●	●
	Convective heat transfer	●	●
	Heat radiation (view factor method)	●	●
	Heat radiation (flux method)	●	●
	Heat conduction panel	●	●
	Moving heat conduction panel	●
	Solar radiation	●	●
	Joule heat	●	●
	Mean radiation temperature calculation	●	●
	Graphic output of rays from lamp	●	●
Diffusion analysis	Diffusivity	●	●
	SORET effect	●	●
	Passive scalar	●
Index for ventilation effciency / thermal comfort	PMV/SET*	●	●
Humidity / dew condensation analysis	Relative humidity / absolute humidity	●	●
Humidity / dew condensation analysis	Dew condensation	●	●
Reaction analysis	Chemical reaction	●	●
	Combustion reaction	● Eddy-dissipation model	● Eddy-dissipation model
	Thermal CVD analysis		●
Particle analysis	Marker particles	●	●
	Mass particles	●	●
	Charged particles	●(user-defined function)	●(user-defined function)
	Spray model	●	●
	Liquid film	●	●
	Transforming dew condensation	●	●
	Transforming fluid / volume rate	● (VOF method)	● (VOF method)
Discrete element method (DEM)	Contact model	Linear spring dashpot model, Hertz-Mindlin model, Walton-Braun model, EEPA mode
	Cloth model	●
	String model	●
	Cluster model	●
	Cohesion model	●
	Thermal	●
	Ad / desorption (Humidity)	●
	Dissolution	●
	Melting	●
	Dynamic domain	●
Multiphase flow analysis	Free surface	● (VOF method, steady-state/transient, multiphase)	● (VOF method, transient)
	Solidification / melting	●	●
	Boil / condensation	● (VOF method, Dispersed multiphase flow)	● (VOF method)
	Evaporation / condensation	●	●
	Cavitation model / erosion index	●	●
	Dispersed multiphase flow	●	●
	Population balance model	●
	Wall boiling model	●
Aerodynamic noise analysis	Ffowcs Williams & Hawkings' equation	●	●
	Weak compressible flow model		●
	Sound source detection model	●	●
	Output for Actran fan noise analysis function (Ring Dipoles method)	●
Current analysis	Conductor current	●	●
Current analysis	Conductor potential	●	●
Battery model	RC model	●
	P2D model	● (1D model, 3D model)
	Semi-Empirical Thermal Runaway model	●
	Kinetics-driven thermal runaway model	●
Thermo-regulation model	JOS, JOS-2	●	●
Flow conditions	Velocity	●	●
	Volume flow rate	●	●
	Mass flow rate	●	●
	Power law	●
	Pressure (static pressure / total pressure)	●	●
	Natural inflow / outflow	●	●
	Fan model	●	●
	Wave generation, wave dissipation	●	● (VOF 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	●	●
	Low-Re-number adaptive wall function	●	●
	Surface roughness	●	●
	Wall model (LES)	●
Pressure conditions	Fixed pressure	●	●
	Pressure loss	●	●
	Porous media	●	●
Source conditions	Volume force/pressure loss	●	●
	Heat generation	●	●
	Smoke source (diffusing materials)	●	●
	Turbulence generation	●	●
	Solid shear heating	●	●
	Simplified propeller model	●	●
	Simplified rotor model	●
User-defined conditions	Variables table / functions	●	●
	Script functions (JavaScript)	●
	User-defined function (compilation required)	●	●
Calculation control environment	Job management	●	●
	Monitoring the calculation status	●	●
	Email notification of the calculation	●	●
	VB interface	●	●
Output for visualization	Wavelet transform	●
Post files output		Software Cradle post files (FPH)	Software Cradle post files (FLD, iFLD)
Output for third party software		Abaqus, Nastran, Actran, Femtet, Adams, Marc, Elements, LOGE, JMAG-Designer, EMSolution, FlowNoise, GT-SUITE, FieldView	Abaqus, Nastran, Femtet, ADVENTURECluster, JMAG-Designer, EMSolution, Optimus, Isight, modeFRONTIER, LMS Virtual.Lab, Actran, FlowNoise, GT-SUITE, KULI, Flowmaster, LOGE, EnSight, FieldView, AVS

Postprocessor

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		scFLOW
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 sweeping	●
	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	●
	Plug-in functionality	●
	Partial open field file by SSH	●
	3D-ROM File reading	●

Miscellaneous

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		scFLOW
scConverter Mapping	Cradle fld,fph -> Nastran nas,bdf	●
	Cradle fld,fph -> Abaqus inp	●
	Cradle fld,fph -> I-Deas unv	● (STL file, NFB file, Wavefront OBJ file)
	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	●
scConverter 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	●
	Graph	●
SmartBlades (Axial)	Register surface regions	●
	Create the parasolid fan model	●
	Execute analyses	●
	VB interface	●
SmartBlades (Centifugal)	Create the parasolid fan model	●
SmartBlades (Centifugal)	VB interface	●
scMonitor	Navigation setting for 3D-ROM	●
	Parametric Study	●
	Create 3D-ROM with VB Interface	●
Cradle XR	AR function for iPhone/iPad	●