Industry Specific Products
PHOENICS FLAIR
FLAIR was created for architects, design engineers and safety officers concerned with the
performance of air-flow systems for the built environment. The software is self-contained
for model set-up and result analysis.
FLAIR enables users to visualise, evaluate and refine air-flow patterns on a micro- or
macro-scale within a room, throughout a building, around a building-complex, within
tunnels or in any other structure of this nature. FLAIR enables users to check on
environmental, or ventilation, flows before embarking on costly construction. Click
here for
examples and here
for more information about FLAIR.
Hevacomp has joined forces with CHAM to link Hevacomp’s new Dynamic Thermal Simulation package to CHAM’s PHOENICS/FLAIR CFD solver. Click here more more details.
Chemical Vapour Deposition Reactors
PHOENICS-CVD is an integrated software system designed to simulate the behaviour of a wide
range of CVD reactors; this involves the modelling of fluid flow and heat transfer in a
multi-component gas, including both gas-phase (homogeneous) and surface (heterogeneous)
chemical reactions and incorporating plasma effects.
VWT
For the majority of people involved in motorsport it is not practical or cost effective to
take cars or motorcycles to a full scale wind tunnel. PHOENICS VWT (Virtual Wind Tunnel)
was created as a practical tool for modelling aerodynamic flows. The software simulates
the flow of air over a vehicle and calculates all important lift, drag and centre of lift
information as well as providing a visual output of the air flow.
PHOENICS is a wind tunnel on YOUR PC
F1 VWT
A low-cost special-purpose variant of PHOENICS, F1 VWT (Virtual Wind Tunnel), is supplied
to schools participating in the F1 In Schools Challenge which is a competition, open to
all UK based secondary schools and colleges, to design and manufacture CO2 powered model
racing cars. Student teams compete nationally to determine the best engineered and fastest
car. It is like being in a real Formula One team (well, the nearest most of us will get to
that experience, anyway). The competition is run by F1 in Schools Limited - a non
profit making organisation - see: www.f1inschools.com
Electrolytic Smelters
ESTER (Electrolytic SmelTER) is a special-purpose adaptation of the general-purpose fluid
flow and heat transfer code PHOENICS, developed specifically for the simulation of multi-anode
electrolytic smelters of the Hall-cell type. It uses a variant of the standard PHOENICS pre-
and post-processors for data input and graphical display.
Based around a common core, a range of modules is available tailored to the needs of
specific industries. For example the Virtual Wind Tunnel provides details of lift and
drag that are essential for the aerodynamicist whereas FLAIR calculates temperatures &
comfort factors that are of more interest to designers of heating and ventilation
systems for buildings.