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COSMOSFloWorks Overview
E a s i ly S i m u l at e l i q u i d a n d G a s F l o w s W i t h i n S o l i d W o r k s ®
COSMOSFloWorks ™ is the first easy-to-use fluid-flow simulation and thermal analysis program that is fully
embedded inside SolidWorks. Designers are free to innovate, secure in the knowledge that they won’t pass
costly mistakes down the line.
The original fluid-flow simulation tool developed exclusively for SolidWorks users,
COSMOSFloWorks gives you insight into your designs related to fluid flow, heat
transfer, and forces on immersed or surrounding components.
Primary industries served Simulate real-world operating conditions. COSMOSFloWorks includes several types
• Aerospace of boundary conditions to represent real-life situations.
• Automotive • Apply inlet velocities, pressures, mass or volume flow rates, and fans.
• Biomedical • Apply mass or volume fraction if multiple gas types are involved.
• Consumer Products • Simulate the effect of heat generation by applying surface or volume heat source.
• Simulate the effect of cooling by applying natural or forced convection.
• Fans
• Simulate rotating parts by applying one or more rotating frames of reference.
• Food Processing
• Study the effect of heat sinks on electronic components with heat sink emulation.
• Glass and Ceramics • Simulate the effect of solar radiation.
• HVAC/Refrigeration • Track the behavior of particles suspended in a flow.
• Industrial Hygiene • Apply time-and-coordinate dependent boundary conditions and heat sources.
• Machinery
• MEMS Automate fluid-flow tasks. COSMOSFloWorks utilizes a number of automation tools
• Plastic Extrusions to simplify the analysis process and help you to work more efficiently.
• Power Plant • Detect fluid volume automatically from SolidWorks geometry, thereby
• Process distinguishing between solid and fluid regions.
• Pumps • Mesh both fluid and solid regions automatically.
• Improve accuracy with solution adaptive mesh generation.
• Valves and Regulators
• Automatically create goal plots to evaluate pressure drop and temperature
distribution once the analysis is complete.
Supported languages
• Save time with a built-in engineering database of commonly used liquids,
• English
gases, solid materials, fans, and units, or customize it with your own materials.
• Japanese
Interpret results with powerful and intuitive visualization tools. Once you have
System requirements completed your analysis, COSMOSFloWorks offers a variety of results visualization
• SolidWorks 2007 or higher tools that allow you to gain valuable insight into the performance of your models.
• Microsoft® Windows XP Professional • Study the distribution of result quantities with section plots (including velocity,
(32-bit and 64-bit) pressure, vorticity, temperature, mass fraction, and others). The section plots
• Intel® Pentium®, Intel Xeon™, can be moved dynamically.
Intel EM64T, AMD Athlon™, or • Measure results at any location with the Point Parameter tool.
AMD Opteron™ - based processor • Graph result variation along any SolidWorks sketch.
• 512 MB RAM or greater • List results and automatically export data to Microsoft Excel.
• Pointing device • Examine the flow trajectory inside or around the model with animated bands,
3D arrows, pipes, or spheres.
• CD-ROM drive
Collaborate and share analysis results. COSMOSFloWorks makes it easy to
collaborate and share analysis results effectively with everyone involved in the
product development process.
• Generate customized engineering reports in Microsoft Word format.
• Save result plots in several standard formats, such as BMP and JPEG.
• Create animations of results using SolidWorks Animator and save as an AVI.
• Publish eDrawings® files with analysis information.
SolidWorks and eDrawings are registered trademarks of SolidWorks Corporation. COSMOSFloWorks is a trademark of Structural Research and Analysis Corporation. All other company and product names are trademarks or
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