Speed up your CFD simulations with FLOW-3D/MP

FLOW-3D/MP is the high peformance computing (HPC) version of

FLOW-3D. It enables users to tackle problems with very large domains
or long runtimes in an HPC cluster environment.

FLOW-3D/MP offers significant performance advantages including

faster runtimes which results in shorter design cycles. It also provides an
opportunity to perform comprehensive design of experiments (DOE)
and parametirc studies to perfect designs. All this can be achieved
while retaining the accuracy offered by FLOW-3D.

Advantages
Developed and optimized for the latest multi-core architecture
Parallelization based on the Hybrid MPI-OpenMP methodology
True Domain Decomposition
Automatic Decomposition Tool allows directional decomposition
Optimized MPI communication and memory management in the
pre-processor
Full compatibility with the FLOW-3D v11 GUI and FlowSight TM for
post-processing results
The physical models and numerical methods of FLOW-3D/MP v6 are
based on FLOW-3D v11
Remote solving capability
FEATURES
MESHING & GEOMETRY THERMAL MODELING OPTIONS PHYSICAL MODELING OPTIONS CONTINUED METAL CASTING MODELS
Structured finite difference/control Natural convection Granular flow Solidification & melting
volume meshes Forced convection Moisture drying Solidification shrinkage with interdendritic feeding
Finite element meshes for structural analysis Conduction in fluid & solid Solid solute dissolution Micro & macro porosity
Multi-Block gridding with nested & linked blocks Fluid-solid heat transfer Spray cooling Binary alloy segregation
Fractional areas/volumes (FAVORTM) Conduction Thermal die cycling
for efficient & accurate geometry definition Specified heat flux Thermal stress & deformations
Basic solids modeler Specified solid temperature NUMERICAL MODELING OPTIONS Surface oxide defects
Import CAD data Distributed energy sources/sinks in fluids and solids
TruVOF Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method for fluid
Cavitation potential
interfaces
Grid & geometry independence Radiation
First and second order advection
Lost-foam casting
Cartesian or cylindrical coordinates Viscous heating
Sharp and diffuse interface tracking
Semi-solid material
Unstructured Memory Allocation Thermal stress evolution
Implicit & explicit numerical methods
Iron solidification
Orthographic thermal conductivity
GMRES, point and line relaxation pressure solvers
Sand core blowing & drying
Thermally-induced stresses
Permeable molds
FLOW DEFINITION OPTIONS User-defined variables, subroutines &
Core gas generation
General initial and boundary conditions PHYSICAL MODELING OPTIONS output
Back pressure & vents
Symmetry Fluid structure interaction Utilities for runtime interaction during execution
Shot sleeves
Rigid and flexible walls Thermal stress evolution Air entrainment
Continuative Plastic deformation of solids Temperature-dependent material properties
Periodic Sediment scour deposition & bedload transport FLUID MODELING OPTIONS
One incompressible fluid confined or with free Cooling channel definitions
Specified pressure Cavitation
Specified velocity Phase change (liquid-vapor, liquid-solid) surfaces
Outflow Surface tension Two incompressible fluids miscible or with sharp ADVANCED PHYSICAL MODELS
Grid overlay Thermo-capillary effects interfaces General moving objects model with 6 DOFprescribed
Hydrostatic pressure Wall adhesion Compressible fluid subsonic, transonic, supersonic and fully-coupled motion
Volume flow rate Wall roughness Stratified fluid Rotating/spinning objects
Non-linear periodic and solitary surface waves Vapor & gas bubbles Acoustic phenomena Collision model
Restart from previous simulation Solidification & melting Mass particles with variable density or diameter Tethered moving objects
Continuation of a simulation Mass/momentum/energy sources Flexing membranes and walls
Overlay boundary conditions Shear-, density- & temperature-dependent viscosity SHALLOW FLOW MODELS Porosity
Change mesh Thixotropic viscosity Dielectric phenomena Finite element based elastic-plastic deformation
Change model parameters Visco-elastic, -plastic fluids Shallow water model Finite element based thermal stress evolution due to
FLOW TYPE OPTIONS Elastic membranes & walls General topography thermal changes in a solidifying fluid
Internal, external & free-surface flows Evaporation residue Wetting & drying
Hybrid shallow water/3D flow model Electric field Wind shear POROUS MEDIA MODELS
3D, 2D & 1D problems Dielectric phenomena Ground roughness effects Saturated and unsaturated flow
Transient flows Electro-osmosis Laminar & turbulent flow Variable & directional porosity
Inviscid, viscous laminar & turbulent flows Electrostatic particles General flow losses (linear & quadratic)
Non-inertial reference frames Electro-mechanical effects Capillary pressure
Multiple scalar species Joule heating Heat transfer in porous media
Two-phase flows Air entrainment Linear & quadratic flow losses
Heat transfer with phase change Molecular & turbulent diffusion Van Genunchten model for unsaturated flow
Saturated & unsaturated porous media Temperature-dependent material properties
FEATURES
TWO-PHASE & COUPLING WITH OTHER PROGRAMS SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
TWO-COMPONENT MODELS Geometry input from Stereolithography (STL) files FLOW-3D/MP runs on both Workstations and clusters running
Liquid/liquid & gas/liquid interfaces binary or ASCII 64-bit Redhat Enterprise Linux (5 & 6) or SUSE 11, a network
Variable density mixtures Direct interfaces with EnSight, FieldView & Tecplot interconnect such as Gigabit Ethernet, or Infiniband and a
One compressible fluid with a dispersed incompressible visualization software large shared NFS disk accessible from all nodes in cluster.
component PLOT3D output FLOW-3D/MP supports Intel MPI, which is provided as a part
Drift flux Neutral file output of the installation.
Two-component, vapor/non-condensable gases Extensive customization possibilities
Phase transformations for gas-liquid & Topographic data input HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
liquid-solid Solid Properties Materials Database The hardware requirements to run FLOW-3D/MP depend
Adiabatic bubbles on the size of the computational grid and complexity
Bubbles with phase change CHEMISTRY MODELS of physical models. We recommend compute nodes
Continuum fluid with discrete particles Stiff equation solver for chemical rate equations with dual CPU sockets of Intel Xeon E5 or E7 family, 4 GB
Scalar transport Stationary or advected species of memory per core, and Infiniband hardware for fast
Homogeneous bubbles interconnect communications. Contact Flow Science at
DISCRETE PARTICLE MODELS sales@flow3d.com for hardware recommendations.
Massless marker particles
USER CONVENIENCES Mass particles of variable size/mass
Mesh & initial condition generators Linear & quadratic fluid-dynamic drag
Automatic time-step control for accuracy & stability Monte-Carlo diffusion
Automatic convergence control Particle-Fluid momentum coupling
Mentor help to optimize efficiency Coefficient of restitution or sticky
Change simulation parameters while solver runs particles
Manage & launch multiple simulations Point or volumetric particle sources
Automatic simulation termination based on user- Charged particles
defined criteria Probe particles

TURBULENCE MODELS
DATA PROCESSING OPTIONS Two-equation - model Our 5-6 day simulations became 15-18 hour simulations using FLOW-3D/MP
Automatic or custom results analysis Two-equation - running on our cluster with Infiniband interconnect. Decreased simulation
High-quality OpenGL-based graphics RNG model time allows us to investigate more design options and additional physics/
Color or B/W vector, contour, 3D surface & particle Large eddy simulation phenomenological complexity.
plots
Moving history & probe data PARALLELIZATION CONTROLS
Probe data for fluid structure interaction/thermal stress Hybrid MPI-OpenMP parallelization
-Dr. Justin Crapps and Dr. Jack Galloway,
evolution Automatic Decomposition Tool (ADT) for static load Los Alamos National Labs
Force & moment computations balancing
Animation output Directional Decomposition for ADT
PostScript, JPEG & Bitmap output Dynamic thread adjustment for dynamic load
Streamlines balancing
Flow tracers
 Microfluidics
HPC BENCHMARKS Ink Drop in a Printer Nozzle
In this simulation, the formation and
Performance analysis of FLOW-3D/MP up to 256 cores for some of the discharge of an ink drop in a printer
nozzle was studied.
typical applications of the software, namely water & environmental, Mesh: 2.0 million cells
metal casting, microfluidics, and aerospace is shown. The Performance Physical models: Free-surface tracking,
laminar viscosity, and surface tension
Metric used for the analysis is defined as the total number of times a
Numerical Models: GMRES
given simulation can be run in a single day (24 hours). The benchmarks
were run on nodes with dual Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors (total of 16
cores per node) connected by Infiniband interconnects of up to 40 Aerospace
Sloshing in an Aircraft Fuel Tank
Gbps.
In this simulation, the fuel sloshing in an
Water & Environmental F-16 aircraft fuel tank at various flight
conditions was studied.
Hydraulic Jump
Mesh: 0.7 million cells
In this simulation, the hydraulic jump
Physical models: Free-surface tracking,
and the overall flow over a spillway
non-inertial reference frame, gravity,
were studied.
electric potential, and RNG turbulence
Mesh: 14.6 million cells
model with dynamically computed
Physical Models: Free-surface tracking,
maximum turbulent mixing length
gravity, air entrainment, and RNG
Numerical Models: Implicit advection,
turbulence model with dynamically
GMRES, split Lagrangian VOF
computed maximum turbulent mixing
length
Numerical Models: GMRES Best Case Scenario
Lid Driven Cavity
The standard lid driven cavity problem
Metal Casting
was simulated to demonstrate the
Engine Block Casting scaling potential of FLOW-3D/MP. This
In this simulation, the gravity casting of is a fully filled, perfectly load balanced
an engine block was studied. simulation which is used to validate
Mesh: 3.6 million cells standard CFD codes.
Physical models: Free-surface tracking, Mesh: 10.0 million cells
gravity, heat transfer, solidification, Physical models: Viscosity and RNG
and viscous laminar flow turbulence.
Numerical Models: GMRES Numerical Models: GMRES
FLOW-3D/MP on POD is a cloud computing solution offered by Flow
Science. This pay-per-use service allows you to expand your available
software and hardware resources to thousands of computational cores.

FLOW-3D/MP is conveniently installed on Penguin Computing on

Demand (POD) for peak times in your design and analysis cycle. Run
that very large simulation that has been simply impossible for the
desktop, or this time, simultaneously run all the simulations for your
parametric study or design of experiments (DOE). In all cases, you only
pay for what you use. For more information contact hpc@flow3d.com.
P O S T - P R O C E S S I N G W I T H F L O W S I G H T TM
FlowSight is a state-of-the-art post-processing tool based on the
industry leading Ensight , which has been customized for FLOW-3D/MP.
Its capabilites include:
Multiple iso-surfaces
2D clips with FAVOR TM geometry
Animated streamlines
Multiple viewpoints of simulation results
Simultaneous view of FSI and fluid flow
results
Extensive annotation capabilites
Read/plot data from external sources
Interactive queries
Texture mapping
3D stereo and head tracking
Moving viewpoints
Volume rendering
Flipbook
Portable results

Transformer room thermal analysis using FLOW-3D/MP

and post-processing with FlowSightTM.
SUPPORT
A variety of technical support packages are available to streamline your
modeling process. Flow Sciences support staff is comprised of engineers
with industry experience who understand the needs and problems facing
users in competitive professional environments. Flow Science prides itself on
offering timely and courteous support from our expert CFD engineers.
TRAINING
Flow Science offers comprehensive FLOW-3D training classes in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. Classes provide attendees with a solid understanding of the
software and hands-on experience solving relevant problems. Classes may
be combined with specific project consultations when deadlines demand
fast results. Existing and new users, as well as those interested in evaluating
the software, are invited to attend.
I wanted to thank you for all your support during the FLOW-3D training, particularly during the
individual consultation session. Your willingness to assist in developing my application is really
appreciated. Please extend my thanks to all at Flow Science for an extremely well-delivered training
course.
Juan A. Gonzalez-Castro, Chief Consulting Engineer, SFWMD, Operations and Hydro Data
Management Division
THE COMPANY
CONTACT INFORMATION
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Flow Science was founded in 1980 by Dr. C. W. (Tony) Hirt, one of the
principals in pioneering the Volume-of-Fluid or VOF method while working
at the Los Alamos National Lab. FLOW-3D is a complete multi-physics
package with significant modeling capabilities including fluid-structure
interaction, 6-DoF moving objects, and multiphase flows.
Flow Science supports a stellar customer base of commercial, academic,
and government users around the globe who use FLOW-3D to improve the
world on a daily basis. We take care of these users directly, and through
a high-quality channel of affiliated companies (in Japan, China, and
Germany) and independent partners.
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