About ICON FOAMpro

foampro-kreiselICON FOAMpro is a customised CFD service package developed using open source solver technology.

The service incorporates four major components:

  • First class user support
  • Graphical user interface for simple case set-up
  • Advanced Cartesian hex-dominant parallel meshing with body fitted near wall layers
  • Enhanced solution and analysis routines

FOAMpro is provided on an annual subscription basis based on total number of supported CFD users with no compulsion to renew. With no licensed meshing and solver fees, it offers massive potential for cost savings and increased hardware scalability to reduce simulation times.

 

 

 

Main Features

clip_image002Support:

  • Icon User Support Portal
  • Installation support
  • Operation support (advice on the general operation of solver, mesher and GUI executables)
  • Maintenance support (bug-fixing, updates)
  • Telephone and E-mail support
  • Multilanguage Support (English, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Hindi,  Dutch, Greek, Finish)

Meshing:

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  • Advanced Cartesian hex-dominant meshing with body fitted near wall layers
  • Fully parallel (Metis and hierarchical decomposition methods supported)
  • Automatic treatment of complex CAD geometry (no need for simplifications or Boolean operations)
  • Automatic detection and retention of feature edges
  • Automatic checks and advanced smoothing algorithms for guaranteed mesh quality
  • STL and Nastran inputs supported
  • Export to Fluent®, STAR-CCM+ and STAR-CD v4
  • Fully automated mesh generator

Solver Technology:

  • Based upon OpenFOAM® technology
  • Second order finite volume method with support for arbitrarily shaped elements
  • Preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) and algebraic multi-grid (AMG) solvers with Gauss-Seidel smoothing
  • SIMPLE and PISO solution algorithms
  • High linear scalability on distributed parallel runs using Open-MPI, HP-MPI or Intel-MPI
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Modelling Capabilities:

  • Enhanced incompressible RANS and LES solvers
  • Heat transfer model with user defined volumetric heat sources
  • Multiple reference frames (MRF) for rotating components with automatic region definition during meshing
  • Porous media domains with automatic region definition during meshing

Pre-processing:

  • Professional GUI used by industry
  • Simplified pre-processing via GUI and/or scripts
  • Control user inputs for: meshing, boundary conditions,  physical models, solver settings, monitoring solution

Boundary Conditions:

  • Inlets: surface normal velocity, velocity vector (Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates), mass flow rate, total pressure with flow direction
  • Outlets: fixed pressure (with or without mixed inflow/outflow across boundary), mass flow rate
  • Walls: default no-slip, free slip, moving (velocity vector), rotating (specific for wheels/tyres) − adiabatic, fixed temperature, heat flux, heat transfer coefficient
  • Symmetry
  • User defined profiles for any flow variable
  • User defined time varying boundary conditions

Turbulence:

  • One-equation Spalart-Allmaras with hybrid type wall function
  • Two-equations standard, realizable and RNG high Re kε with standard log law type wall function
  • Two-equations kω-SST with hybrid type wall function
  • Spalart-Allmaras Detached Eddy Simulation (DES)
  • One equation eddy viscosity SGS Large Eddy Simulation (LES)
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Post-processing:

  • Fully customisable function objects for: monitoring drag/lift, calculating new flow field variables, averaging time dependent data, reporting area and mass flux averaged results on volumes and arbitrary planes, recording flow data at user defined probes
  • Export results to ParaView, EnSight®, Fieldview and others (including parallel distributed conversion)
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