Exa Releases PowerFLOW 4.4 Suite

By DE Editors

Exa, a provider of fluids simulation solutions for product engineering, announced the latest release of its PowerFLOW product suite, Release 4.4. According to the company, the release improves performance and user productivity, streamlining its industry-leading fluids-analysis simulation process.

Overall turnaround times are reduced with performance improvements, new incremental discretization technology that accelerates automatic fluid grid creation for modified models, application-specific case setup templates for thermal and aeroacoustic analyses, and dozens of other changes.

Many thermal analysis improvements are also included in the release, including a new thermal battery model in PowerTHERM, which enables accurate simulation of the complex thermal and electrical behavior of batteries, as well as an improved human comfort model that extends thermal simulation capabilities to include the heat transfer due to evaporation, condensation, blood flow, and sweat.

Other improvements include incremental discretization, making fluid grid generation now 80 percent faster on iterative runs; large cluster performance improvements of up to 15 percent; and new application-specific templates for thermal and wind noise.

PowerFLOWs decomposer, which prepares a simulation to run on high performance parallel computing clusters with potentially thousands of processors, has been improved so that cases that previously required an hour or more to decompose can now complete in a few minutes, even when decomposing for thousands of processors. Existing template setups may be quickly switched for aerodynamic, thermal, and aeroacoustics simulations of the same or similar geometry.

The release also includes upgrades for PowerTHERM and PowerVIZ.

For more information, visit Exa.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.