Autodesk® CFD 2019 contains several new features and functional updates designed to improve the solving capabilities, simulation fidelity, and the overall user experience.
The scalable solver improvements have continued to bring more capabilities and improved performance. The scalable solver now supports:
The Scalable solver has matching local and cloud performance, though individual performance is limited to machine specifications.
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Thermal calculations should provide improved energy balance using the wall calculator. The calculations are now using residuals at surface nodes. To revert to the old method turn off the resid_heat_flux_calc flag.
To help grab results from a specific area, the Cut Regions tool was created. This tool allows you to create a circular or rectangular region that gives the average results of the region. Cut Regions are useful reviewing AEC models, but are still applicable to other industries, and analysis types.
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Updated graphics libraries show up to 50% graphical performance improvements (model dependent).
Generating a Premium or Ultimate CFD license covers both the solver and the UI. If you have a subscription seat to Autodesk® CFD Premium, the cloud solver has motion capabilities.
We have added the ability to work with geometry from Fusion 360. Fusion 360 has CAD, CAM, and Simulation capabilities. The model simplification tools available in SimStudio Tools are available in Fusion 360. Improvements are also available in the Replace with Primitives command, sizing can be done by snapping to a face or vertex.
Fusion 360 does not use standard networking licenses it is a cloud product that validates user subscription.