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Cradle CFD

Cradle CFD is the world's leading computational fluid dynamics technology.

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Cradle CFD delivers Smart Multiphysics Focused Computational Fluid Dynamics solutions. World's leading CFD technology available to boost smart manufacturing.

Cradle CFD Software Overview

Cradle CFD software solutions contain a range of applications designed to solve fluid and gas mechanics and heat transfer problems. Specifically, the software supports engineers in the early stages of design, before full-scale experiments with physical prototypes begin. Moreover, Cradle CFD is essential in cases where setting up physical experiments is difficult or impossible. Consequently, engineers can evaluate characteristics and perform measurements that would otherwise be impossible in full-scale tests.

Furthermore, Software Cradle has joined MSC Software Corporation and expanded computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capabilities within the MSC family of products. Therefore, the Cradle CFD suite now offers broader simulation support for industrial applications. Additionally, specialized Cradle CFD products include the scSTREAM structured mesh solver, the scFLOW unstructured mesh solver, and the PICLS printed circuit board thermal simulation tool. In particular, each product targets specific engineering simulation needs across aerospace, automotive, and electronics industries. To explore these solutions, visit the MSC Software Cradle CFD product page.

Cradle CFD simulation results

Additional options

Cradle CFD hydrogasodynamic process analysis can include additional options that allow creating models to analyze the following processes.

  • Heat transfer. Accounting for heat transfer, heat exchange between media and objects of the computational model, including moving objects. Convective and radiant heat transfer can be accounted for (2 calculation methods). Inclusion of joule heat, solar radiation with daytime and light side selection possibilities, inclusion of a point or distributed light source into the model.
  • Human thermoregulation. ScFLOW includes a detailed model of human thermoregulation, taking into account gender, age, etc.
  • Diffusion, including passive scalar and thermodiffusion (the Sore effect).
  • Chemical reactions. Chemical precipitation (e.g., under the influence of temperature), oxidation, combustion.
  • Analysis of particle behavior. Particle trajectory tracking, mass particles, charged particles, built-in discrete element method (DEM), atomization model. It is possible to analyze liquid condensation (dewfall). Formation of liquid film on solid surface and its movement along it, change of fluid medium flow rate, its volume.
  • Multiphase flows. A fluid medium in the model may have a free surface bordering another fluid medium. The presence of more than one phase and the possibility of phase transition for the medium enables to analyze such processes as solidification (freezing) and melting (thawing). Boiling, condensation, evaporation and their various combinations. A model of cavitation is implemented.
Cradle CFD scFLOW mesh analysis
  • Electrical charge. Charged particles can be present in the analyzed medium, and electrical permeability is set for the medium itself. In this case, the model elements can possess an electric potential and interact with the medium, introducing perturbation into it, which can be tracked, for example, by the trajectories of individual particles.
flow field visualization model

Cradle CFD scFLOW

The scFLOW implements an extremely useful and efficient algorithm for automatically adapting the mesh to the problem. To use it, it is sufficient to formulate a problem and build a regular computational grid of average quality. The automatic algorithm then performs a series of calculations to adapt and rebuild the existing mesh, keeping track of the nature of the flow. This makes it possible to create, in semi-automatic mode, computational meshes of high quality and acceptable dimensionality, without the need for unreasonable multiple increases in the case of “manual” construction.

thermal analysis software results

One of the strengths of scFLOW is its efficient mechanism for modeling moving elements as they interact with fluid media. Model elements can interact with each other, for example, a valve can overlap the flowing part of the model by contacting the walls of a pipeline, thereby completely or partially shutting off the flow. Another example: two movable rotating elements interact with each other and “push” the fluid – a gear pump. Such and many other problems are successfully solved using the intersecting grid methods, in which the grid moves together with the moving objects. In this case, the moving mesh is superimposed on a stationary one with automatic recalculation of results (Overset mesh).

For free bodies, buoyancy is implemented.

multiphysics engineering simulation

The interaction of Lagrangian and Eulerian meshes on arbitrary surfaces (Airbirary Lagrangian-Eulerian – ALE) and the Mixing plane method, which implements cyclic boundary conditions to reduce the dimensionality of the problem, are provided.

Package for testing

You can request a trial version of the full package for testing. The trial is followed with a technical demonstration aimed on software abilities and focused on your design and manufacturing purposes.

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