Wizard idea

With the trend in recent years for multi-tasking, design engineers are taking more of the responsibility for more of the process than ever before — from CAD to machining, word processing and spreadsheet operation.

To provide these more diversified non-specialists with sophisticated standalone analysis capability, entry level finite element analysis tools, or ‘stress checkers’, have become more popular.

To assist with this revolution, Fluent has come up with FloWizard, a smart workflow-based ‘wizard’ that magically turns ordinary design engineers into competent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) operators.

Paul Bemis, vice-president of product management at Fluent, recently said: ‘The software is now ready to be marketed more broadly. But for it to be deployed it must be made easy to use, automated so that it makes correct decisions on the user’s behalf, and affordable. For this to happen, the delivery method will change to a “pay per use” basis via the web.’

The highly-automated FloWizard represents perhaps the easiest-to-use CFD tool ever developed. This means that for the first time, engineers without any specialist CFD knowledge can access the benefits of sophisticated CFD analysis at an early stage in the design and development process. basic fluid forces, temperature fields and other flow phenomena can be evaluated on a CAD model at any stage in the development.